Climate change fueled more intense rains in Pakistan

The World

Flooding in Pakistan this monsoon season inundated a third of the country, killed more than 1,500 people so far, and has left more than half a million homeless. A new scientific analysis released Thursday found that as much as a third of the rain that fell over southern Pakistan over a particularly intense five-day period was due to climate change.  The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports. 

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