Afternoon Update: Global heating forecast to hit at least 1.8C, DNA tests to help identify Nepal flood victims, and shark drones

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Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion.

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