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Flash floods kill 43 in northern Pakistan: Officials
2016-07-03 07:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said Sunday. The heavy monsoon rains began late Saturday and were concentrated mainly in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been badly affected by flooding in recent years that some scientists have linked to climate change.
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Health officials race to prevent Congo yellow fever disaster
2016-07-01 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo's capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love. Kinshasa's 12 million people - twice as many as there are doses of yellow fever vaccine anywhere in the world - are largely unprotected against this sometimes deadly but easily preventable illness, which has killed at least 353 in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbour...
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Health officials in Peru: oil spill cleanup workers face poisoning and burns
2016-06-27 09:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Local residents and workers contracted to clean up a recent crude oil spill in Perus northeastern Loreto region lacked appropriate safety equipment, according to a preliminary report by the Dátem del Maraón Health Network, which is part of the Loreto Regional Health Office (DIRESA). Health risks could include poisoning and burns from direct exposure to the oil. According to the report, which was obtained by Mongabay, the oil spill reported on June 24 was caused by a crack at kilometer 213.4...
66 million dead trees in California could fuel 'catastrophic' wildfires, officials say
2016-06-22 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of trees in Californias Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger peoples lives, officials said on Wednesday. Since 2010, an estimated 66 million trees have died in a six-county region of the central and southern Sierra hardest hit by the epidemic, the US Forest Service said. Officials flying over the region captured images...
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Whistleblower Says EPA Officials Covered Up Toxic Fracking Methane Emissions for Years
2016-06-10 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Why has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to take adequate action against disastrous, climate-warming methane emissions from the fracking industry? An environmental watchdog alleges that the answer may be a years-long, systematic cover-up of the true data surrounding these toxic emissions. That cover-up, the group says, was at the hands of at least one EPA researcher who accepted payments from the oil and gas industry. In an incendiary federal complaint filed on Wednesday...
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