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WHO: Climate Change Deaths to Double by 2030

HeadlineApr 25, 2007

In a new warning about the effects of climate change, the World Health Organization says it expects deaths and injuries from climate change to more than double in the next 25 years. The yearly death toll linked to weather patterns is forecast to top 300,000 by the year 2030.

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