WHO: Environment woes killing millions
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Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - Frogs, toads and newts face worldwide environmental threats, according to a new study by more than 500 scientists from over 60 nations.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Oct. 21, 2004 - The world&#39;s population is consuming about 20 percent more natural resources than the planet can produce, the environmental organization WWF International warned Thursday in its &quot;Living Planet&quot; report.
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The human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life, according to a report by WWF. The Living Planet Report 2004 shows that humans currently consume 20 per cent more
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
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The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday.
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The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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Damage to the environment could soon pass a point of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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As many as five million deaths are caused by air pollution every year in India, the country's junior Environment and Forest Minister Namo Narayan Meena said.
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The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the world on Monday.
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Delicate wetlands, coasts and wildlife   sanctuaries could be ravaged as part of a struggle to stretch   the world's water supplies, with the worst damage foreseen in   poor countries.