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Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan: 'Surging Sea' Blamed for Countless Deaths
2013-11-10 12:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC News: The casualty count is being characterized as catastrophic in the central Philippines from the powerful typhoon that ripped through the region. "We have so many dead people. We don't have bags," said mayor Remedios Petilla of Palo, a municipality in the Eastern Visayas region that was hard hit. A half-dozen central Philippine islands are reeling from Typhoon Haiyan after it made landfall early Friday morning. The storm, with sustained winds of nearly 200 miles an hour, flattened entire towns in...
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China's air pollution blamed for 8-year-old's lung-cancer
2013-11-07 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An eight-year-old girl becomes China's 'youngest' lung-cancer patient as doctors say high levels of air pollution responsible for her condition Share Tweet this Email A pedestrian is picked out of gloom in his red jacket on a smoggy day in Jilin in China. Concern is growing over air quality in Chinese cities as the density of airborne particles is several times above World Health Organisation recommended limits. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters From cancer villages to lung-choking pollution, the impacts...
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Levels of gases in atmosphere blamed for global warming increased to record high in 2012
2013-11-06 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday. "For all these major greenhouse gases the concentrations are reaching once again record levels," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud told a news conference in Geneva at which he presented the UN climate agency's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin . Jarraud said the accelerating trend was driving climate change, making it harder to keep global...
GlaxoSmithKline to Escape China Bribery Charges as Individual Executives Blamed
2013-11-04 12:23:20| Biotech - Topix.net
The Ministry of Public Security said that the unnamed GSK executives routed 3bn yuan in bribes to doctors through travel agencies and consultancies to illegally boost sales and to raise the price of its medicines in China.
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US home sales plunge in September, high mortgage rates blamed
2013-10-28 16:15:36| Real Estate - Topix.net
The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell in September to the lowest level in nine months, reflecting higher mortgage rates and home prices that have made purchases more costly.
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