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Pollution from power plants in two states killed thousands of people last year
2016-07-15 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: How poisonous are power plants? An estimated 2,300 people in the United States died prematurely because of Pennsylvanias power plants just last year, according to a study out Thursday. Across the border in Ohio, power plants claimed another 2,130 lives last year. The healthcare bill for people suffering from power plants in both states hit $40 billion. These startling numbers come from a pair of reports from NextGen Climate America and PSE Healthy Energy, which looked at two states infamous for...
Climate-linked European heatwave killed over 500
2016-07-12 05:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Hundreds of west Europeans were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report British researchers say climate change was responsible for the deaths of more than 60 people in London in 2003, and over 500 in Paris. In a rare instance of direct attribution of human mortality to warming temperatures, they say that years European heatwave raised the risk of heat-related death by 20% in London, and in Paris by 70%. Using both climate...
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Five Workers Killed at U.K. Recycling Plant
2016-07-11 16:15:00| Waste Age
Five men died last week after a "large concrete structure containing metal" collapsed at the Hawkeswood Metal recycling plant near Birmingham in the United Kingdom. read more
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Extremely warm waters killed off Great Southern Reef kelp forest
2016-07-10 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Modern Readers: Much has been said about the havoc climate change had wreaked upon the Great Barrier Reef, killing significant volumes of coral due to extreme amounts of warm water. But new research has shifted the spotlight to Australia`s so-called "other reef," the Great Southern Reef, another spot that has lost a lot of vibrant sea life due to an extreme marine heat wave taking place about five years ago. And once again, the researchers are pinning the blame on climate change, and stressing that other forms...
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Climate change killed Europeans in 2003 heat
2016-07-09 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Hundreds of west European were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report. British researchers say climate change was responsible for the deaths of more than 60 people in London in 2003, and over 500 in Paris. In a rare instance of direct attribution of human mortality to warming temperatures, they say that year`s European heatwave raised the risk of heat-related death by 20% in London, and in Paris by 70%. Using both climate and mortality...
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