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In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 1.9 million acres of the Pantanal, the world s largest tropical wetlands.
The research suggests that flooding will be the costliest natural disaster for the UK to deal with - including up to £33.9 billion in the next decade alone.