Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden
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If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees?
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations&#39; World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help millions who have fled their homes in the nearly four-year-old war.
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Millions more South Asians will suffer from diseases like malaria and cholera, or go hungry due to global warming, but governments are not fully aware of the dangers, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
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Arctic regions are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world - a trend marked by melting glaciers, shrinking sea ice and climatic changes that are turning solid ground into swamps, exposing coastal villages to erosion and threatening wildlife.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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Global warming is likely to produce a significant increase in the intensity and rainfall of hurricanes in coming decades, according to an analysis.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report said Monday.
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The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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The U.N. refugee agency appealed on Friday for $1.06 billion to provide food and shelter next year for millions of people uprooted by persecution and conflict.
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The World Bank is hiring experts in 'adaptation' to a warming world. Coastal planners are starting to take it into account.
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A global warming trend will reduce farm yields and make food supplies scarcer over the next century, an environmental group said Thursday, citing data from the United Nations and the National Academy of Sciences and trends in the world rice market.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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The U.N. climate panel issued its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are heating the planet, adding pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming.
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Millions of Africans are likely to be worst affected by global warming, a conference on climate change hears.