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Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

.... The Harvard researchers analysed city-specific weather data related to the deaths of more than 6.5 millio.... However, during similar periods of extremely hot weather death rates went up by 5.74%. Deaths did not rise as steeply when temperature fluctuations were less...

Parking Garages Unsafe During Hurricanes

... during hurricanes. Schmidlin has studied severe weather including hurricanes, tornadoes, storms and lightning for more than 15 years....

Capricious Climate in Indonesia Adds to Farmers Woe

...ssist them with good yields. Some farmers feel the weather has also turned capricious. Indonesias rice farmin... the ozone layer. I think that caused the shift of weather patterns on earth." Indonesia is facing the onslaught of rising sea levels and climatic change. Ra...

ISRO Chief Concerned About River Pollution

...m health to agriculture to disaster management and weather forecasting....

New Survey List Out Cities That Take Sun Protection Seriously

...a and Los Angeles each noted for year-round sunny weather rounded out the top five rankings. At the other end of the sun-smart spectrum, Chicago was ranked last of the 32 cities polled, earning the designation of the least sun-smart city and demonstrating the need for increased efforts to educate reside...

Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants

...eper under ground."One thing you can thank the dry weather for is it keeps the fire ants down," says Merchant. This year, as wet conditions have returned, it is believed the pests' visibility would be increased."I think those fire ants are waking up," says Bart Drees, an entomologist with the Texas Coopera...

Nature Unleashes Terror Across America

...ca and in the Midwest regions, two forms of severe weather have put citizens to the extreme test. While wildfires have been raging across southern Georgia for three whole weeks now, in its wake scorching 167 square miles of forest and swamp, wet storms across the Southeast are currently churning the sea and...

Global Warming To Effect Eastern Coast Of India

...ted increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like storm surges and cyclones. In the eastern coast, the vulnerable districts include Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara in Orissa and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu....

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...d more people are pushing into rural areas. In dry weather conditions, such regions can be rife with dry, crackling brush ideal kindling for a wildfire sparked by a bolt of lightning, discarded cigarette butt, or another trigger. In years past, foresters worked hard to clear this brush with controlled bu...

Rice Containing Breast Milk Proteins to Be Grown in Kansas

...ment through animals and birds, or through extreme weather events. The USDA has, however, said that the any...ant risk. It also says that a tornado or extreme weather conditions would not disperse the seed widely, though it accepts that there is a requirement of an e...

Figures of Dengue In Singapore On The Rise

... the spike in dengue cases is likely due to warmer weather during this period of the year. "Warmer weather facilitates an increase in mosquito activity ... and a higher rate of multiplication of the dengue v...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

... "weather robot" on the 8,848-metre peak to record weather changes. In 1993, climbers from the Tokai Mountaineering Club in central Japan put the robot on the peak, without being told what it contained. Later, when the team went down and tried to radio contact the robot, there was no sign, making them real...

Climate Change Reorganized Tibetan Culture 700 Years Ago: Study

Changes in weather 700 years ago might have forced Tibetans to reorganize their society, an anthropologist has claimed. Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona, who is leading a research project in far western Tibet, is quoted by national Geographic as saying...

Iceland Introduces Smoking Ban in Bars and Restaurants

...taurant, told AFP. Due to everchanging Icelandic weather conditions and a fairly chilly climate even in summer, many bar owners have set up gas heaters on pavements and some restaurants will be lending blankets to customers. Most venues have increased their staff of doormen and bouncers because of the expe...

Bengal to Ban Low-grade Plastic Production

... countries with various diseases and unpredictable weather conditions, he said. "We have to conserve the water bodies, social forestry and wildlife to keep a balance between industry and environment in the state," he said....

Notion Behind Spread of Flu Epidemic may Not Hold True for the Tropics

...ear round," Miller said. The team suggested that weather may determine how the disease travels south from the Equator. "More delicate experiments are definitely needed to tease apart the complex relationships being uncovered here. This research takes a nice first look at viral behavior in the tropics," sai...

North India Reels Under Heat Wave

...ntinue to rise and the heat wave will continue," a weather official said....

Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...sease, says her mother. Experts say prevailing weather patterns of hot days punctuated by a day of rain have worsened the problem. It's not so much the rise in temperature that affects dengue, rather the rising rainfall has lengthened the lifespan of the epidemic each season," says Wiku Adisasmito, a den...

Shrinking of Mt. Kilimanjaros Ice Cap Not Due to Global Warming: Study

... freezer burn. According to the duo, fluctuating weather patterns related to the Indian Ocean could also affect the shifting balance between the ice's increase, which might have occurred for decades before the first explorers reached Mt. Kilimanjaro's summit in 1889, and the shrinking that has been going o...

Sweltering Heat in Madhya Pradesh Claims Fifteen Lives

...aimed six more lives taking the toll to 15. The weather officials had no hope to offer, saying the hot weather would persist for the next two days. The six deaths include two each in Shivpuri, Morena and Damo...

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