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Climate impact predicted to cause 500,000 extra deaths in 2050
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer and heart disease, experts said on Wednesday. As extreme weather such as floods and heat waves wreaks havoc with harvests and…