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On the Brink of Disaster
Report identifies areas where natural disasters could hit hardest |
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22 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:51 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Natural disasters made more severe by climate change will hit especially hard in regions with shaky political, economic, and security situations, says a new report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and relief agency CARE International. Vulnerable areas include central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel; Afghanistan, the Casp ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, severe weather, United Nations (all these topics) |
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It Was Sunny in Seattle
Global weather is bad and likely to get worse |
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28 Jun 2007 |
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| It Was Sunny in Seattle Global weather is bad and likely to get worse Within the last week, excessive heat -- think 113 degrees Fahrenheit -- has killed dozens of people in Greece, Romania, and Turkey. Storms killed some 150 people in India and about 220 people in Pakistan. Britain has been deluged by flooding. We like to think of these severe weather incidents as coincidental, but some crazies claim they're ... |
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