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Climate refugees will soon surpass those displaced by war
Nov 17, 2020 16:14A recent forecast suggests that, by the year 2050, the number of people driven from their homes by ecological catastrophes could be 900% greater than the 100 million forced to flee conflicts over the last decade.
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Storm Eta devastated lives of 1.2 million-plus children: UNICEF
Nov 13, 2020 04:53Tropical Storm Eta, which left more than 200 dead and missing in Central America, has "devastated the lives" of more than 1.2 million children in the region, according to UNICEF.
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India uses artificial intelligence, geo testing to identify pollution hotspots
Nov 12, 2020 10:59Pollution levels in and around New Delhi have been hovering at alarmingly high levels for the past week and a UN body is helping the authorities identify pollution hotspots with artificial intelligence and geotesting, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) India head says.
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'Seismic shift' in world's approach to land use, wildlife, and climate action needed to avoid new 'era of pandemics,' study says
Nov 06, 2020 18:22The same human activities that drive climate change and biodiversity loss also drive pandemic risk through their impacts on our environment.
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More traces of cancer-causing PFAS in Arctic raise alarm over global spread
Oct 20, 2020 18:17A new study revealed that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — a family of potentially toxic chemicals with more than 4,700 known members — have become even more widespread in the environment than previously thought.
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Landslide hits barracks in Vietnam, killing 14, leaving 8 missing
Oct 18, 2020 16:17A landslide early on Sunday killed at least 14 military personnel and left eight missing in central Vietnam, the government said, in what could be the country's largest military loss in peace time as it battles major flooding.
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'Uninhabitable hell' for millions: UN report sounds alarm on humanity's continued destruction of planet earth
Oct 16, 2020 18:17Political and business leaders are being "willfully negligent" as natural disasters nearly double this century, the world body's special representative for disaster risk reduction said recently. Since 2000, major floods have more than doubled, while major storms increased by nearly 50%. Other categories of disasters—including drought, wildfires, and extreme temperature events—also rose significantly.
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Trump's USDA sued over program allowing 'horrific' mass slaughter of native wildlife
Oct 14, 2020 14:08Days after data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program was sued over what conservation advocates decry as a cruel and misguided annual extermination spree.
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Leaked docs from inside 'omnicidal' ExxonMobil reveal plan to increase climate-killing emissions
Oct 11, 2020 18:08To no one's surprise, Exxon is continuing to drive catastrophic climate change by putting profits before people and our planet.
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Trying to have it both ways: Investigation reveals BP and Shell still back anti-climate lobby groups, despite pledges
Oct 07, 2020 17:50Fossil fuel giants Royal Dutch Shell and BP remain active members of numerous Big Oil lobby groups fighting against climate legislation and regulation—without disclosing this in their transparency reports—an Unearthed and HuffPost investigation revealed.