Answer the following questions briefly.
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(i) What is the latest finding regarding climate change?
(ii) How was the lack of food and water affecting countries in the Middle East ar
Africa?
(iii) What is unique about the latest report on climate change?
(iv) What do recent scientific studies indicate?
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Answer:
1. 2 times 4=8
2.New research shows that as Earth's climate changes, increased carbon absorption by Arctic plants is being offset by a corresponding plant "productivity" decline in the tropics. NASA researchers are tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our air, land, water, and climate.
3.ater scarcities will affect the region's social and economic potential, increase land vulnerability to salinization and desertification and raise the risk for political conflict around the limited water available.
4.According to the NOAA 2019 Global Climate Summary, the combined land and ocean temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.07°C (0.13°F) per decade since 1880; however, the average rate of increase since 1981 (0.18°C / 0.32°F) is more than twice as great.
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