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| Heat deaths in Manhattan to rise. |
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Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some worst-case scenarios, 90 percent or more 70 years hence. |
| Years after scare linked measles shot to autism, unprotected UK children drive measles spread. |
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More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. |
| The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market. |
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In towns across North Dakota, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting." As the state's Bakken shale fields have grown, so has the fight over who has the right to tap into the multimillion-dollar market to supply water to the energy sector. |
| Fluoride fight cracks Portland's Left. |
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The fight over fluoridation has erupted in Portland, where the battle has drawn in the city's craft-beer brewers and environmentalists. The debate has prompted something of an existential crisis in this self-consciously liberal city. |
| Swarm of tornadoes slams US Plains, Midwest. |
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Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation’s midsection Sunday, with reported twisters in Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma as part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. |
| More bodies recovered in collapsed Indonesia mine. |
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Rescuers recovered five more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 14, police said Monday. |
| The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill. |
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The global financial crisis helped slam the breaks on dreams of a Hydrogen Highway, but the roots of green energy's mid-life crisis - marked by a rash of recent corporate collapses in everything from electric cars to solar panels - run far deeper. |
| Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research. |
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Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialize, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe - leading to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth. |
| China: Water shortages put a brake on economic growth. |
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In the face of China's rapid economic expansion and growing presence on the global stage, it is often forgotten that the country is running out of water. Chinese officials identify water scarcity as one of the nation's most pressing difficulties. The problems are social, political and economic. |
| Wells dry, fertile US plains turn to dust. |
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The High Plains aquifer, which lies beneath Wyoming and South Dakota and stretches clear to the Texas Panhandle, is crucial for farmers needing irrigation. But as one heads south, it is increasingly tapped out, drained by ever more intensive farming and, lately, by drought. |
