Climate Change triggers extreme weather - study
Severe droughts, floods and heat waves rocked
the world last year as greenhouse gas levels climbed, boosting the
odds of some extreme weather events, international scientists said
Tuesday. The details are contained in the annual State of the
Climate report, compiled by nearly 400 scientists from 48 countries
and published in the peer-reviewed Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society.
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Warlords keep huge army of child soldiers in slavery
More than 11,000 child soldiers were freed from
military slavery last year, but the United Nations believes hundreds
of thousands around the world remain at the mercy of warlords like
Thomas Lubanga.
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