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At least 40 feared dead in rains, landslides in northern India
2016-07-03 13:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At least 40 people were feared dead following a downpour that triggered flash floods and landslides in northern Indian Uttarakhand state over the weekend, a state official said. Several more people were still missing, a spokesman at the state chief minister's office, Om Prakash Sati, said on Sunday, with remote Chamoli and Pithoragarh being the worst affected districts in the state. The state has so far confirmed 18 deaths, of whom 15 were from Pithoragarh. The official toll was expected to...
More than 100 feared dead in India heat wave
2016-04-21 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday. Neighboring Pakistan, which suffered its hottest spell in decades last year, plans to open 500 response centers to provide shelter and cold water to people if a heat-wave warning is issued, a government official said. No heat deaths have yet been reported. India's hottest months are May and June, but some states...
Around 500 migrants feared dead as boat sinks off Libya coast
2016-04-21 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Hundreds of migrants attempting to reach Europe are feared to have drowned when an overcrowded, repurposed fishing boat sank off the Libya coast.
Plants won't boost warming as much as feared
2016-03-26 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Vegetation will release far less extra carbon dioxide in a warming world than previously assumed, giving humans a bit more room in the fight against climate change, scientists reported recently. Despite this good news, efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions must still be stepped up to avoid dire climate impacts, the researchers cautioned. Earth`s plants and soil microbes absorb and exude huge quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, the main driver of global warming. Over the course of a...
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Japanese tsunami debris: It's not the problem California feared
2016-03-16 02:17:01| Automakers - Topix.net
When a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in 2011, sending homes, cars and millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, fears rose that vast amounts of wreckage -- some of it toxic -- might wash up on California beaches, foul harbors and even sink U.S. ships. But when the fifth anniversary of the disaster passed Friday, only three pieces of confirmed tsunami debris had been found on California beaches.
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