By Matt McGrath
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A new report on the impacts of climate change will likely be the most worrying assessment yet of how rising temperatures affect every living thing.

This will be thesecondof three major reports from theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) and its first since November’s COP26 summit.

Scientists and officials will publish theirconclusionson 28 February.

The study will focus heavily on regional impacts as well as on cities and coastal communities.

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The IPCC carries out these large-scale reviews of the latest research on warming every six or seven years on behalf of governments. This set of three is their sixth assessment report.

Researchers are formed…