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India Floods Destroy Millions Of Homes, Dreams

"There was water everywhere, but not a single drop to drink." That is how Ronju Chowdhary described the scene outside her house on Saturday. She lives in Udiana, a remote village in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, which has been hit by severe floods.It had been raining incessantly, she remembers. The water rose so quickly that the streets were completely submerged within hours.

21 June 2022
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Millions Stranded As Floods Hit Bangladesh, India

Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 59 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said Saturday.Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability.Relentless downpours over the past week have inundated vast stretches of Bangladesh's northeast, with troops deployed to evacuate households cut off from neigh

19 June 2022
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Deadly Heatwaves Threaten Economies Too

More frequent and intense heatwaves are the deadliest form of extreme weather made worse by global warming, with death tolls sometimes in the thousands, but they can also have devastating economic impacts too, experts say.The prolonged and unseasonable scorchers gripping the central United States (US) and rolling northward across western Europe, sending the thermometer above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), are likely to cause both.Deadly And CostlyVery high temperatures caused ne

16 June 2022
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Big Tobacco's Environmental Impact Is Shocking

The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realise as it is one of the world's biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.The WHO accused the industry of causing widespread deforestation, diverting badly needed land and water in poor countries away from food production, spewing out plastic and chemical waste as well as emitting millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.In its report released on Wor

1 June 2022
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Indonesia’s Deadly Illegal Gold Mines

Lampang has been a miner at a community gold mine in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan for more than 30 years. Even still, he does not like to talk openly about his work.“Please don’t tell anyone the name of my mine,” Lampang, who is 53 years old and like many Indonesians only goes by one name, said.

9 May 2022
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COVID Killed 15 Million In 2020-21: WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic killed around 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated Thursday – nearly triple the number of deaths officially attributed to the disease.The WHO’s long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic – including lives lost to its knock-on effects – finally puts a number on the broader impact of the crisis.The figures give a more realistic picture of the worst pandemic in a century, which has, accor

6 May 2022
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Mystery Disease Kills Three Children In Indonesia

Three children in Indonesia have died from a mysterious liver disease, the country's health ministry said, raising to at least four the global death toll of a fatal ailment puzzling doctors from the United States (US) to Asia.This severe strain of acute hepatitis has been identified in nearly 230 children in 20 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday, raising concerns of the disease's "unknown origin".The symptoms afflicting the children include nausea,

5 May 2022
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COVID Deaths Rise, Beijing Warns Situation 'Grim'

Shanghai reported 39 COVID deaths on Sunday, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started, while China's capital Beijing warned of a "grim" situation with rising infections.The world's second-largest economy has been struggling to stamp out its worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years with a playbook of harsh lockdowns and mass testing as it sticks to a strict zero-COVID policy, taking a heavy toll on businesses and public morale.The cosmopo

24 April 2022
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Pregnant Women An 'Afterthought' During Pandemic

Pregnant women have been an "afterthought" during the coronavirus pandemic and some of their deaths were "preventable", a leading scientist has said. Data shows there have been at least 40 maternal deaths from COVID in the United Kingdom (UK).Almost all were unvaccinated and more than half happened after pregnant women were advised to take-up the vaccine.The regulator says vaccines during pregnancy are "safe".Professor Marian Knight, who investigates eve

20 April 2022
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Shanghai Reports More Deaths As COVID Toll Rises

China reported seven new deaths from COVID-19 in Shanghai on Tuesday, raising the official toll after hundreds of thousands of cases in the metropolis during a weeks-long lockdown.City authorities revealed the first virus deaths on Monday, with Tuesday's fatalities bringing the total official toll to just 10, despite the scale of the outbreak.Beijing insists its zero-COVID policy of hard lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines has averted fatalities and the public health crises t

19 April 2022
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COVID: Elderly Deaths Contradict Shanghai Figures

Dozens of elderly patients at a hospital in Shanghai have died after contracting COVID-19, but official government figures claim no deaths in the city have been caused by the disease since 2020.The BBC has spoken to a hospital manager and had access to correspondence sent to relatives of patients who've died during the Omicron outbreak that is sweeping through China's biggest city.We've also had access to official documents that suggest at least 27 patients from a single hospit

16 April 2022
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Deaths From Megi In The Philippines Rises To 80

The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 80 on Wednesday with scores missing and feared dead, officials said, as rescuers dug up more bodies with bare hands and backhoes in crushed villages.Most of the deaths from tropical storm Megi – the strongest to hit the archipelago this year – were in the central province of Leyte, where a series of landslides devastated communities.26 people died and around 150 were missing in the coastal village of Pilar, which is part of

14 April 2022
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