Fires, floods, flying insects: 10 recent climate-fuelled disasters
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Paris (AFP) – From a summer of fire and record floods, to freak frosts and locusts invasions, experts say man-made climate change is wreaking havoc on the world’s weather. Here are some of the most devastating climate-fuelled disasters from the past two years: Mediterranean on fire – Greece’s worst heatwave in decades fuelled deadly wildfires that burned nearly 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) this year in what the prime minister called the country’s “greatest ecological disaster in decades”. The summer blazes killed about 80 people in Algeria and Turkey, with Italy and Spain also ravaged by …