Climate report warns of drought, disease
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Climate change is exacerbating the spread of  infectious diseases, new research suggests.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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Reports released this week offer evidence of climate change's impact: Plants and animals are dying and showing up in places they shouldn't, the Arctic is heating rapidly and sea levels are rising. By Stephen Leahy.
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.
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Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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European winters will disappear by 2080 and extreme weather will become more common unless global warming across the continent is slowed, warns a major new report.
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The climate that made south Asia a winter attraction for thousands of tourists is now a major factor in spreading disease in the wake of the earthquake and tidal waves that have killed more than 70,000 people, according to the latest reports.
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Action is needed to protect British wildlife from the effects of a changing climate, a report says.
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A U.S. scientist says climate change is producing increasing drought conditions but the nation is doing little to prepare for potential catastrophe.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
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The U.N. climate panel issued its toughest warning yet on Friday that human activities are to blame for global warming and projected a damaging, accelerating rise in temperatures in the 21st century.
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A report from the W.H.O. warns that new infectious diseases are emerging at an âunprecedented rate.â
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An international scientific report warns of floods, famine and global water scarcity. Sound familiar? But the government has yet to edit before it's presented in April in Brussels. By the Associated Press.
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Climate experts at NASA believe they have found a way of forecasting droughts and floods months in advance, the New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday.
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A new report warns that life in the Australian city of Sydney could be made unsustainable by climate change.