Tag: Rising Seas

Floods, drought, mosquito disease aim at Europe

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change will amplify the risk of flooding in northwestern Europe, water scarcity and forest fires

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WHO says climate change poses health risks

MANILA (AFP) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned Asia Pacific countries that they could be vulnerable to

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Climate warning from Pacific

Climate change is wreaking havoc and there is an urgent need to help island communities at risk of being

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Greenland’s ice cap melting faster than expected

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Greenland's ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than

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Canada’s Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away

OTTAWA (AFP) - Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third

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Climate change could devastate Philippines

MANILA (AFP) - Climate change could have a devastating impact on the Philippines, leading to widespread destruction of the

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World’s glaciers facing huge threat

GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations said Monday that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by

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Climate Change produces The world’s first rising seas “refugees”

PORT MORESBY, The 1,500 residents of Carteret Island, an atoll of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea,

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Maldives president seeks help for ‘paradise drowning’

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom made an impassioned plea Tuesday for a cut in global greenhouse

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Indonesia’s thirsty capital is sinking as sea levels rise

Separated by a road and a viscous finger of black, garbage-choked water, the stilt-house slum of Muara Baru and

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