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Nations make new pledges to cut methane, save forests at climate summit

An area of the Amazon rainforest which has been slashed and burned stands next to a section of virgin forest. [Reuters]

Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference pledged on Tuesday to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change.

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