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Japan’s Yokohama widens rollout of food waste vending machines as Tokyo pushes to curb emissions
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Heavy rainfall across the region was caused by the combination of natural phenomena and climate change but in Indonesia's Sumatra, where the most lives have been lost, the scale of disaster was worsened by deforestation.
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