Tag: Climate Change
Britain, Bangladesh urge climate change action
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj0iZiivYJc]Britain joined forces on Wednesday with Bangladesh, one of the countries most prone to climate change, in calling for more money and a new world deal to combat the catastrophic consequences of
Vietnam under high risk of Climate change
World Bank officials said Tuesday the agency’s new Global Monitoring Report underlines the risks that environmental damage and climate change pose to the gains made by developing countries in recent years, even development success stories such as Vietnam. The report, issued Monday and entitled “Millennium Development Goals and the Environment,” singles out Vietnam as both […]
Climate link with killer cyclones spurs fierce scientific debate
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall. Are these events — […]
Bangladesh faces climate change refugee nightmare
Abdul Majid has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh. There are millions like Majid, 65, in Bangladesh and in the future there could be many millions more if scientists’ predictions of rising seas and more intense droughts and storms come true. “Bangladesh […]
Climate change increases cataract blindness risk: experts
Climate change will increase the risk of people losing their sight through cataracts because of higher levels of ultraviolet rays, an expert said Monday.”The three main risk factors that lead to cataract blindness are age, smoking and UV exposure, in that order,” said Andreas Mueller of the Fred Hollows Foundation.
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