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Aerial view overhead flooded houses after a cyclone and rain in Mozambique.

How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses

An opinion piece authored by Professor Nina Dethlefs, School of Science at Loughborough University, and Ifeoluwa Wuraola and Dr Daniel Marciniak, of the University of Hull, for The Conversation.

13 April 2026

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