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As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests - The Wall Street Journal

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As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests - WSJ

Under cover of darkness, several climate protesters made their way onto a golf green in southern Spain earlier this month and filmed themselves pouring cement into a hole.

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