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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Miles Herbert

Afternoon Update: Global heating forecast to hit at least 1.8C; DNA tests to help identify Nepal flood victims; and shark drones

A family wades through a flooded street in India
A UN report has warned global heating will reach at least 1.8C, and that there are ‘no good outcomes’. Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

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Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion.

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