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"About two months ago we had a tremendous amount of rain overnight over two nights. Streets upstream around Greenford and lots of other streets all flooded, but the target area... didn't flood.
"So the community really saw the benefits."
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Global average temperatures across the year are on track to end up more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, which would make 2024 the first calendar year to breach this symbolic mark. https://t.co/l2T0DmqCBF
“We are currently in a biodiversity crisis. Many species of trees all around the world are providing habitat for many other species of birds, mammals, insects, fungi.
If we lose the trees we are losing many other species with them.”
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The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian Ocean, a temporary move to Romania. | Excellent reporting out of the Chagos Islands by @alice_cuddy & Swaminathan Natarajan https://t.co/VGFPHkgktL
UK agrees to give up sovereignty of remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in historic deal over one of its last overseas territories https://t.co/RpGm3JcQ6w
Israel's military says it has launched "extensive" strikes in Lebanon, after Hezbollah fired missiles at Tel Aviv - follow live
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