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Asia hit hard by climate change, drought, and rising temperatures

A new report from the U.N. weather agency shows Asia has been heating up nearly twice as fast as the global average.

Asia feels the effects as the climate grows hotter. (AN/Stanislav Ferrao/Unsplash)

Global warming: It's so yesterday's news. A climate-change denier has moved into the White House and petrostates have hijacked the United Nations' most important global warming conferences.

Still, our planet grows hotter by the day from human-produced pollution. No region demonstrates this better than Asia, where extreme heat, powerful storms, and prolonged drought kills people, livestock, and crops.

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