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The Independent UK
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Sibi Arasu

Last decade was Earth's hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report

UN State of Climate - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at an 800,000-year high, a report Wednesday said.

In its annual State of the Climate report, the World Meteorological Organization laid bare all the markings of an increasingly warming world with oceans at record high temperatures, sea levels rising and glaciers retreating at record speed.

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