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Climate warming, erosion and destructive habitat practices may also lead to its continued decline.

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Those conditions helped fuel some of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history.

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The war in Gaza has been the longest, deadliest and most destructive in a decadeslong cycle of conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians.

Philippine authorities had warned of "destructive" and "life threatening" tsunami waves following Friday's earthquake, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said about an hour later that the threat had passed.

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky warned the UN last month that AI was contributing to "the most destructive arms race in human history".

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