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Climate change driving 'record threats to health': report

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Climate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report says.

The eighth Lancet Countdown on health and climate change was developed by 122 experts including from UN agencies such as the World Health Organization .

The report was released as heatwaves, fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods have lashed the world during what is expected to surpass 2023 to become the hottest year on record.

The number of over-65s who died from heat has risen by 167 percent since the 1990s .

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