After Sea Surges, Water Could Kill in Another Way
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Loudspeakers boomed warnings across scenes of devastation in this city Tuesday, cautioning survivors of this week&#39;s tsunami that drinking water from wells or underground sources may make them sick.
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The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" -- a swath of water with such low levels of oxygen that marine life can be threatened or killed -- could be the largest since measurements began in 1985, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Islanders on tiny Tuvalu in the South Pacific last week saw the future of global warming and rising sea levels, as extreme high tides caused waves to crash over crumbling sea-walls and flood their homes.
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A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the areaÂs woes to a whole new level.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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The death toll from Sunday's huge sea surges spirals towards 60,000 as recovery workers reach outlying areas.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Blood swirled in knee-deep flood waters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue yesterday. Carcasses of pigs, goats, and dogs, and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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Since rain and freshwater flooding are the number one causes of death from hurricanes in the United States over the last 30 years, better understanding of these storms is vital for insuring public safety.
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Levels in the Mediterranean Sea are rising rapidly, with potentially serious effects in coastal areas, a study finds.
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The oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide that has built up in the air, turning water more acidic and creating potentially catastrophic conditions for marine life.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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The interplay between the oceans and atmosphere is changing, wiping out vast swathes of marine life, say scientists.
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BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): The death toll from Sundayâs tidal wave disaster climbed to more than 67,000 yesterday and experts warned that disease epidemics from rotting corpses, smashed sewers and contaminated water could double the figure.
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The dead zone of oxygen-depleted water that has been killing crabs and fish along the central Oregon Coast is showing the first signs of breaking up, but will likely remain in place until fall storms move in next month.
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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.
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Aid teams rushed from Europe to southern Asian countries devastated by tidal waves Sunday, warning that anything less than an urgent response would add many more deaths to a toll already in the thousands.