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There鈥檚 been massive flooding in Dubai, with twice the annual amount of rain in a single day. Roads, runways and shopping malls were flooded. Meanwhile, West Africa has been dealing with one of its worst heatwaves. Late March and early April saw consistent temperatures above 40 degrees centigrade, sometimes even at night. We know a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme weather events more likely - but are the freak events going to be the new normal?

Three 大象传媒 reporters take us through the facts. Abdirahim Saeed looks at the infrastructure in Dubai and our Climate Disinformation reporter, Marco Silva, explains what conspiracies around cloud-seeding were doing the rounds after the floods. We go to Lagos to speak to Makuochi Okafor, a 大象传媒 Health Correspondent for West Africa, and we also hear from three people in their early twenties about how they鈥檙e coping in the heat and trying to limit the effects of climate change.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: Adam Chowdhury, Alex Rhodes, Emily Horler and Mary Isokariari
Editor: Verity Wilde