Sydney, Oct 30, 2024 (AFP) - Climate-scarred Australia faces fiercer fires, floods, droughts

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Australia's oceans are turning more acidic, bushfires are raging longer, and droughts are becoming more severe, according to a major new climate report released Thursday by government researchers. The State of the Climate report, compiled over two years by Australia's weather bureau and national science agency, paints a bleak picture of life in a sunburned country unless global emission reduction efforts are radically overhauled. "It is the rate......

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