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'Summer of Extremes': Heat, wildfires and floods make summer of 2023

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Flooded areas in Yanshou County of Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on August 5, 2023. [Xinhua]

The summer of 2023 is "a summer of extremes," resulting in major damage to people's health and the environment, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Friday.

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