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Technological revolution, political instability and the most intense El Niño phenomenon in decades: it seems like a portrait of today, but we are talking about 1877.
That year's El Niño was one of the deadliest climate disasters on record, causing the deaths of 50 million people, approximately 3% of the world's population.
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As the world faces a record-breaking El Niño, we spoke to historians and scientists about what happened in 1877 and what we can learn from one of the deadliest climate disasters on record.
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