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Urgent: 2014 hottest year on record: U.S. gov't agencies

Xinhua, January 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

The year 2014 was Earth's hottest since record keeping began in 1880, according to two separate analyses released Friday by the U.S. space agency NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Endite