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Sturm Und Dang
Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities |
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20 Sep 2004 |
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| Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities Thanks to global warming and the increasing concentration of the earth's denizens in densely populated urban centers, more and more people are vulnerable to natural disasters -- floods, droughts, storms, fires, landslides, and the like. The number of reported natural disasters rose from 261 in 1990 to 337 last year; durin ... |
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| Topics: Caribbean, climate, Southeast, United Nations (all these topics) |
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