Climate change could displace 25 million by 2010

Bonn, June 10 (IANS) By next year - that’s how soon around 25-50 million people will be displaced by climate change as it unleashes more natural disasters and affects farm output, says a senior UN researcher. Northern India will be among the worst affected in the long term. “Climate change will displace 25-50 million people by next year. The situation will be the worst in the poorer countries,”...

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Dressing for the big freeze in New York

When winter's full force hits New York, temperatures dip well below zero. And when the city freezes, New Yorkers ditch their stylish outfits for the "Michelin man" look, as Matthew Price explains. New Yorkers swap style for practicality when snow and ice hit the city To be honest, I don't think I ever saw this moment coming. OK, so it had taken some time to get to this stage,...

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Snow gives Scots a white Christmas

The Met Office said that snow has been confirmed in Glasgow Flakes of snow have fallen on Glasgow on Christmas morning, giving the city its first white Christmas since 2004. An official white Christmas requires a single flake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 December. The Met Office said that snow has been confirmed in Glasgow and was forecast for Edinburgh and...

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When winter's full force hits New York, temperatures dip well below zero. And when the city freezes, New Yorkers ditch their stylish outfits for the "Michelin man" look, as Matthew Price explains. New Yorkers swap style for practicality when snow and ice hit the city To be honest, I don't think I ever saw this moment coming. OK, so it had taken some time to get to this stage,...

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Snow gives parts of UK first white Christmas since 2004

Snow gives parts of UK first white Christmas since 2004 More snow could fall in some parts of the UK next week Snow has fallen in parts of the UK to make the first white Christmas for five years, the Met Office has confirmed. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Nottingham and Leeds were all officially "white", with the required single flake being seen falling in the 24 hours of 25 December....

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Evils of False Progress Interfere in Fight for Climate - Now It's up to Us .

Although one yearns for global warming to indeed not exceed 2 degrees Celsius (or less, as African countries demand), the take-home message from the Copenhagen COP meeting is that polluters and growth mongers, large and small, will not let up. This is because they are not being forced to -- whether by their own peoples or by natural forces such as ecological or economic collapse. Most diabolical...

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Taking Responsibility for the Climate Crisis

The unnatural dominant culture, coldly spewing its noise and heat, subjecting us to dirty machines and pavement, no longer makes sense in terms of our needs as humans. But don't let it get you down and make you give up. Play your guitar, enjoy the company of friends, or whatever else restores your humanity. Perhaps the songs and the conversations will lead to some liberation and justice,...

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Looking for a Silver Lining in the Post-Summit Landscape

Much was left undone in Copenhagen, and the many loopholes in the climate accord could lead to rising emissions. But the conference averted disaster by keeping the UN climate negotiations alive, and some expressed hope that the growth of renewable energy technology may ultimately save the day. Did British climate secretary Ed Miliband save the planet early on the final Saturday of the Copenhagen...

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Requiem for a Crowded Planet

This is what the failure of the climate talks means. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 21st December 2009 The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) assured the delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The negotiations ran into...

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Carbon Price Drops Are True Signal That Copenhagen Was a Cop-Out

Was Copenhagen historic or a failure (or both)? To discern the value of the Copenhagen deal through the din of spin, look no further than the 9% drop in the European carbon market on Monday, where confidence vanished following the President Obama's "historic accord." Last week, President Obama made an audacious effort to save what was a floundering process in Copenhagen. Unfortunately, his administration's...

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WHO: World H1N1 Deaths Now at Least 11,516

GENEVA —  At least 11,516 people around the globe have died from the H1N1 flu virus since the pandemic emerged in April, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Wednesday. But in its weekly update, which showed an increase in officially reported deaths of nearly 1,000 since its last report, it said the disease appeared to have peaked or plateaued in Western Europe and...

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H1N1 Deadlier in Children Than Seasonal Flu

BOSTON —  H1N1 swine flu can kill children at a much higher rate than seasonal flu, and the elevated risk for pregnant women extends as long as two weeks after they give birth, researchers reported. The findings show that the H1N1 pandemic, while overall no more deadly than seasonal flu, is capable of hitting vulnerable women and children far harder than regular flu usually does. "Pediatric...

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Guidance for expanded use of oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) in children under one year of age in the context of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The following guidance should be read in conjunction with relevant provincial and territorial guidance documents. The Public Health Agency of Canada will be posting regular updates and related documents at www.phac-aspc.gc.ca. ntroductionThis guidance document has been prepared by the Public Health Agency of Canada to assist clinicians in the management of children under one year of age presenting...

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Heart disease to cost U.S. $503 billion in 2010

Heart group says many cases could have been prevented. A U.S. heart patient is prepared for a two-hour surgery at Bangkok Heart Hospital in Bangkok.WASHINGTON - Cardiovascular disease and stroke will cost the United States an estimated $503.2 billion in 2010, an increase of nearly 6 percent, and many cases could have been prevented, the American Heart Association said on Thursday. The figure includes...

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Danger at home: Rare form of TB comes to U.S.

First U.S. case of extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis diagnosed Editor's note: Once curable diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria are rapidly mutating into aggressive strains that resist drugs. The reason: The misuse of the very drugs that were supposed to save us has built up drug resistance worldwide. First of a five-part series. Oswaldo Juarez looks out of the window from...

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