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AN EDITORIAL PRIORITY
The climate crisis, an editorial priority for AFP

The future of the planet is the greatest challenge facing humanity. Devastating fires, record temperatures, superstorms and melting icesheets - day after day, extreme weather events amplified by global warming make headlines. Following the warnings of scientists, the world's youth has been at the forefront of raising awareness about the climate emergency, pollution levels, and the environmental degradation threatening humanity and biodiversity.

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Aerial view of a forest area consumed by a massive fire about 350 kilometres south of Santiago on June 23, 2017. Martin BERNETTI / AFP
Polar bears feeding at a garbage dump near the village of Belushya Guba, on the remote Russian northern Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Alexander GRIR/AFP
Firefighters work to control flames from a backfire during the Maria fire in Santa Paula, California on November 1, 2019. Josh Edelson / AFP
People and students hold placards and a banner showing 16-year-old Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg in a protest against global warming in central Rome on March 15, 2019. Andreas SOLARO / AFP
People enjoy the beach as they look at a forest fire in La Croix-Valmer, near Saint-Tropez, on July 25, 2017. Valery HACHE / AFP
An indigenous woman from the Pataxo Ha-ha-hae community cries while looking at the Paraopeba river covered in mud, on the sixth day after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine near the town of Brumadinho. Mauro Pimentel/AFP
This aerial photo shows the boat of Captain Edward Kean passing an iceberg in Bonavista Bay on June 29, 2019 in Newfoundland, Canada. Johannes Eisele/AFP
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