'Beware tsunamis and climate': UN
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The world must act against natural disasters as well as climate change , the United Nations says.
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United Nations experts called on governments around the world to build early-warning systems that can cut death tolls from natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami that has killed nearly 40,000.
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A tsunami warning system should be in place in South Asia and Southeast Asia within a year, the U.N. said.
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A tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean could be up and running by next year, a UN agency says.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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The UN's disaster chief urges countries to divert small sums spent on emergency relief to tackling disaster prevention.
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UN scientists have delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes and melt polar sea ice.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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Barriers such as coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs saved lives by deflecting Asia's tsunami and governments should protect such natural bulwarks against the wrath of the sea, a leading environmental group said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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The Maldives blamed scientists for not sharing information that could have reduced the tsunami destruction across Asia as the UN secretary general vowed to improve infrastructure in hard-hit nations.
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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the world on Tuesday to learn from the killer Asian tsunami, saying spending now could limit the loss of life and damage from inevitable natural disasters.
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Delegates at a conference in Thailand decided Saturday to create several regional tsunami warning centers around southern Asia that would protect the area from killer waves, a U.N. official said.
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GENEVA - Respiratory and water-borne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster &quot;in the next few days,&quot; a UN official warned Wednesday.
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As the Asian tsunami focuses world attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for a global early warning system for all such catastrophes as soon as possible.
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UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) is calling for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot; to the tsunami that&#39;s killed at least 119 thousand people in south Asia.