Winter deaths rise 'shameful'
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Help the Aged says the number of winter deaths in Scotland last year exceeded those on the country's roads.
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Police found the body of a 16-year-old skier who had suffocated after a bad fall in deep snow Monday, bringing the death toll from weekend avalanches and skiing accidents to eight.
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Warmer-than-usual winters are stoking fears for the survival of New Englandâs maple forests.
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Christmas is the deadliest day of  the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than  normal, researchers said on Monday.
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Young males most at risk as Northern Ireland sees sharp rise in self-inflicted deaths.
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Global warming could cause dramatically hotter summers and a depleted snow pack in California, leading to a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and jeopardizing the water supply, according to a study released Monday.
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Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air &#151; those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. They urged governments and citizens to take steps now to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming.
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WHEN Scots turn up the heat the rest of the world dies a little, a report by an international conservation charity claimed yesterday.
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More people die of cardiac-related problems during the holidays than at any other time of the year because they delay seeking medical treatment, according to a study released Monday.
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More than 17,000 deaths a year are unnecessary and down to poor NHS performance, a study says.
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Christmas is the deadliest day of the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than normal, researchers said on Monday.
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Wild winter weather across China left hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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"Civilian deaths of all categories, less natural causes, have . . . declined considerably, by over 45 percent Iraq-wide since the height of the sectarian violence in December. . . . The level of civilian deaths is clearly still too high and continues to be of serious concern. . . . The overall...
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Some 300 Afghans have died in the past 10 days from bitter cold and heavy snow across the country, the Health Ministry said Monday.
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Campaigns to save local A&E departments from closure could cause many unnecessary deaths each year, a report has warned.
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One of Britain's worst winter storms in years battered Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland, leaving at least six people dead and two others missing.
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By YP Rajesh and Suresh Seshadri in Cuddalore and Madras, India. RESCUE workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India today, as the government warned the death toll of more than