Global warming to multiply world's refugee burden
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If rising sea levels force the people of the Maldive Islands to seek new homes, who will look after them in a world already turning warier of refugees?
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet) by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said on Tuesday.
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations&#39; World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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The Arctic is warming rapidly, which in turn is affecting global climate, according to an ACIA assessment to be released next week.
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'Six Degrees Could Change the World,' presented by National Geographic, looks at the impact global warming could have on the world's most fragile â and remote â locales.
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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Rising temperatures will leave  millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water  shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe  and the United States, according to a new global climate  report.
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Melting glaciers, ice sheets and snow cover could speed the rate at which the planet heats up, causing rising sea levels, flooding and water shortages that impact as many as 40 percent of the world's population, a U.N. report said Monday.
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The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from the effects of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told global environment ministers on Monday.
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PARIS, Feb 2 (IPS) - Stark warnings over the damaging effect of  impending climate change were underlined in the release Friday of  the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate  Change (IPCC).
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By Dan Vergano  The human and economic cost of global warming will move to center stage when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the second and third installments of its report this spring, experts say.
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The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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A rise in global temperatures could result in devastating effects in just over 20 years time, a study warns.
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The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told environment ministers from around the world on Monday.
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Environmental and development groups joined forces in warning here that global warming threatens to hit the world's poorest people hardest and magnify existing injustices.