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Extreme weather: the technologies used to combat climate change

Members'-only content Caroline Hayes — Mon 2 Oct 2023 — updated 17 Nov 2023

Extremes of weather and unseasonal meteorological patterns have been experienced around the globe in 2023, but each phenomenon has localised effects.

E+T Sept 2023
This article appeared in Issue number 8, Volume 18, Issue 8 - September 2023 of E+T Magazine.
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