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  "title": "Climate change may be making us lonelier. How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections",
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  "summary": "As extreme weather becomes more common and disruptive, the effects can impair relationships, interrupt routines and communication, and damage gathering places and the foundations of community traditions.",
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