2020’s extreme weather 

The World

2020 has been a rough year. This week, we add into the mix fires, floods and hurricanes. Right now, around the world there’s Typhoon Bavi in North Korea, wildfires in the US and once-in-a-generation flooding in China. These separate stories all have a thread: climate change. Host Carol Hills finds out more from The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler.

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