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How a prepared India saved lives during monster storm Phailin
2013-10-14 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As meteorologists warned last week of a monster storm ploughing towards India's east coast, the country's disaster preparedness teams snapped into action, pre-positioning emergency response teams and supplies, and evacuating nearly a million people - ultimately saving countless lives. The impressive show of disaster preparedness is thanks in large part to the lessons learnt after a powerful cyclone hit the country and killed 10,000 people in 1999, and the plans implemented in the years since, say...
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Low-income families push for healthier lives for kids
2013-10-13 05:08:50| Biotech - Topix.net
Erica Penick took her 6-year-old daughter for an annual check-up a few months ago and discovered she was borderline overweight.
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Coal export from US sent via BC shorten lives in China
2013-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Our son Henrys best friend lives next door to us in Burnaby, but only for a few more months. Five-year-old Xiao Xiao, an earnest little boy with a quick and dimpled smile, is here with his mother, Wei, who is spending the year as a visiting scholar at SFU. Soon Wei and Xiao Xiao will return home to toxic air and a completely different lifestyle in Tianjin, a port city in northern China. While Henry will continue to breathe clean air, play outside nearly every day and take natural beauty for granted,...
Fuel bills will kill: Cost of rocketing energy prices will be measured in lives needlessly lost
2013-10-12 08:46:22| Energy - Topix.net
Minister's fury as 10m hit by shock SSE announcement of 8% rise and hard-up families in fear of other firms following with crippling gas and electricity prices The real cost of rocketing energy bills could be measured in the number of lives needlessly lost this winter, a senior Government advisor warns.
People Live Long and Healthy Lives In Connecticut
2013-10-11 13:08:09| Biotech - Topix.net
We have a lot of "snowbirds" in Waterford, as people have retired to sunnier climes with gentler taxes in states such as Florida.
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