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Climate change driving child marriages and teen pregnancies

A new report says climate change is pushing more girls into child marriages and teen pregnancies, as droughts, floods and rising poverty force families to marry off daughters or leave them exposed to exploitation. Coverage highlights the issue as an often-overlooked social cost of global warming, with readers debating how directly environmental crises translate into harm for young girls.

Why now: A newly published report linking the climate crisis to child marriage has drawn fresh attention to the issue.

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