Climate change worsened Pakistan’s devastating flooding, analysis finds
Record rainfall spurred Pakistan’s worst flooding in more than a decade, destroying more than a million homes, killing nearly 1,500 people and affecting an additional 33 million people. Now, an analysis released Thursday showed that climate change probably intensified the rain by 50 to 75 percent.
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