Climate change pushes "African" diseases north: expert
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Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said.
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Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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The Arctic is under increasing stress from warming temperatures as shrubs colonize the tundra, changing wildlife habitat and local climate conditions, researchers said Wednesday.
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A comprehensive scientific study of the Arctic climate has confirmed what Canadian Dene and Inuit have been saying for years: the North is melting, and faster all the time.
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Ghana's Lake Bosumtwi holds clues to Africa's climate past - and a massive space impact.
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Africa's poor millions, already suffering grinding poverty and rampant disease, risk bearing the brunt of the global warming crisis unless urgent action is taken now, a leading Nigerian scientist said Wednesday.
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced
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Polio has spread to two more African  countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali,  highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and  central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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The obesity epidemic needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, says a top nutritional scientist.
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An infectious disease expert is warning that the United States and other countries aren&#39;t prepared for an outbreak of bird flu.
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Severe flooding caused by torrential rains stretching across Africa is probably linked to the &quot;La Nina&quot; weather pattern thousands of mile away in the Pacific, a senior UN weather agency scientist said Thursday.
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Desertification could drive tens of millions of people from their homes, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, a U.N. study warned on Thursday.
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Famine in Africa could worsen  unless action is taken to tackle the continent's HIV/AIDS  epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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Scientists warned Tuesday that a long-term increase in global temperature of 3.5 degrees could threaten Latin American water supplies, reduce food yields in Asia and result in a rise in extreme weather conditions in the Caribbean.