West Africa's deadly heat wave driven by climate change, scientists say
A brutal, deadly stretch of heat in West Africa would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new report has found.
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A brutal, deadly stretch of heat in West Africa would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new report has found.