India’s Ashwin retires from IPL to focus on T20 cricket overseas
Ravichandran Ashwin is the IPL's fifth-highest wicket-taker and is second on India's list of Test wickets.
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.
Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire, the authors of the paper found.
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