Report: Heat to Cause More Calif. Deaths
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Longer and more intense heat waves throughout California in the decades ahead will lead to more heat-related deaths in several major cities, according to a new report.
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Lighter winds and higher humidity have enabled firefighters in California to go on the attack more, but the fires remain worrisome.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Local health officials on Thursday confirmed a third West Nile virus death in Los Angeles County, bringing the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to six in the western US state of California.
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Up to 500 people are estimated to have  died across Hungary last week, partly due to a heatwave  gripping central and southeast Europe, Hungarian medical  officials said on Tuesday.
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Pollution from the construction industry led to the deaths of more than 1,100 people in California in 2005, a report released on Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists said.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Four more Romanians have died from a heat wave gripping parts of southeast Europe, health officials said yesterday, raising the region's death toll from the past few days to at least 30.
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The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 141 deaths and did untold damage to crops.
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Cincinnati didn&#39;t fare well in a new study that looks at the effect of ground-level ozone on the death rate. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that
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Climate change in Sydney will cause a  significant rise in heat-related deaths of people over 65 years  of age by 2050, as Australia's biggest city suffers more heat  waves, bushfires and floods, a new environment report says.
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LOS ANGELES -- Health officials plan to announce Monday whether the death of a 62-year-old Claremont, Calif., man was the fourth in Los Angeles County known to have been caused by West Nile virus.
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Stanford researcher finds first link between rising levels of carbon dioxide and increased human mortality, a finding that could bolster efforts by California and 15 other states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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Californians sweated through soaring temperatures even at beaches Monday as much of the state ended the long Labor Day weekend in the grips of a record-setting heat wave.
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Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st century, according to a new modeling study by two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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Huge wildfires, such as the ones that have charred more than 460,000 acres this week in Southern California, are becoming more common in the Western United States, and scientists say warming trends and other climate factors may be responsible.
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A study of a 2003 heatwave in Europe may give Pacific islanders and environmentalists new ammunition for legal cases blaming the United States for global warming, advocates said on Thursday.
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The West Nile virus is now responsible for six deaths in California, with the number of people infected with the virus at 249, according to the most recent data released by the California Department of Health Services.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.