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Seven areas in the Peninsular and one in Sabah issued a Level 1 (alert) for at least three consecutive days. - Photo by MetMalaysia

Undersea kelp forests generate some $500 billion (RM2.215 trillion) in fishing revenue and other benefits while absorbing five million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, scientists estimated in a study published Tuesday. The study published in Nature Communications offered a rare gauge of the contribution from the tall seaweed, which is threatened by climate change, valuing it at three times the amount previously thought.

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At least half a billion youngsters are already exposed to a high number of heatwaves due to climate change. - 123RF Photo

Pakistan: An Internally displaced flood-affected girl sits in her tent at sunset at a camp in the flood-hit area in Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province on Sept 28, 2022. (Photo by Fida HUSSAIN / AFP)

In an aerial view, gravestones stand above dried grass at Evergreen Cemetery, which lacks recycled water and is the city's oldest nondenominational cemetery, on Sept 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/AFP)

Temperatures in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian may exceed 40 degrees Celsius. - 123RF Photo

Several streets in the city of Nelson were flooded after the local river, the Maitai, burst its banks. - Photo: Reuters Twitter

A person runs as wildfire approaches houses on Vatera coastal resort on the eastern island of Lesbos on July 23, 2022. Residents were evacuated as wildfire threatened properties. - (Photo by MANOLIS LAGOUTARIS / AFP)

This photograph shows a street thermometer reading 44 degrees Celsius during a heatwave in Seville on July 12, 2022. - (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)