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Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.
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The world’s most famous golf course could crumble into the North Sea by the middle of this century, according to a climate change expert.
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When a 1991 cholera outbreak that killed thousands in Peru was traced to plankton blooms fueled by warmer-than-usual coastal waters, linking disease outbreaks to epidemics was a new idea.
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Heavier rainfall triggering sewage overflows will contaminate water more often, scientists say.
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Water is the key to life. It is fundamental to all human activities. Water grows the food we eat, generates the energy that supports our modern economies and maintains the ecological services on which we all depend. Yet billions of people worldwide still lack access to the most basic human right: safe, clean, adequate water.
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HUMAN and animal waste is "widespread" in groundwater and poses a health risk to drinking water supplies, the Environmental Protection Agency warned yesterday.
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Environmentalists deploy a new legal tool aimed at limiting carbon dioxide — the Clean Water Act.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is set to push international leaders to draw up a "world risk map" of global financial institutions to allow financial authorities to quickly identify future trouble spots
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Both the beauty and the fragility of the planet were on spectacular display Monday as TODAY reported on climate change live from four very diverse regions around the globe.
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Negotiations continued for the release of a hijacked Saudi-owned oil supertanker, with the pirates asking for $25 million in ransom, news agencies reported.
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Activist tries to sue world leaders for $1 billion for causing global warming
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How can we reduce risk for individuals? That's a natural question when a financial crisis has vaporized trillions of dollars of personal wealth in residential real estate and financial instruments. The problem is, when you try to reduce risk for individuals too much, you end up making things much riskier.
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Panel: "more likely than not" that a WMD attack will occur in the next 5 years.
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In a season of talks on global warming, and in a climate of economic disasater, Merkel has eased away from a few of her greener commitments. Meanwhile Obama has yet to show his hand on the climate -- or, in fact, take office. What's a world community to do?
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Jumbo squid are long-distance commuters. Every day, these gangly creatures migrate more than 500 hundred vertical feet. It's a high-energy lifestyle — and one that's going to suffer as a result of global warming, according to a new study.
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Making a profit in the industry requires either a very short, or a very long, investment horizon
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At the moment, it is estimated that only one third of the world population has access to safe drinking water. Consequently, water borne diseases are prevalent and are major factors contributing to both mortality and morbidity, more especially among young
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Steven Johnson’s portrait of the 18th-century chemist, theologian and perennial agitator Joseph Priestley is also a lament about the intellectual specialization of our modern age.
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Residents are being warned to stay away from beaches along the eastern shoreline of Greater Victoria because of sewage overflows.
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The Canadian women's under-17 team has announced its final roster for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand.
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The confusion over eligibility for this month's World Cup has deepened, with Tonga now denied the services of three players they planned to use in the tournament.
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Secure in the knowledge that thanks to a seven-point lead he needs to finish only second to arch-rival Felipe Massa in the next three races to clinch his first world championship crown, Lewis Hamilton looked relaxed yesterday as he set the third fastest lap time behind Germany's Timo Glock and the Singapore Grand Prix victor Fernando Alonso.
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Financial leaders from the world's top economies worked Friday on sweeping plans to prop up the tottering banking system, as stocks plunged again in Europe and Asia and careened wildly on Wall Street.
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U.S. stock markets gyrated wildly yesterday as the world's top finance ministers met in Washington to hammer out a joint set of principles aimed at containing the financial crisis and restoring badly damaged confidence.
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How students are learning to treat cancer using 3D technology.
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Risk appetite vanished from the currency markets once more on Friday, as plummeting equities sent investors into panic, scrambling from high-yielding currencies and flocking to the perceived safe havens of the yen and the dollar
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Cricket Scotland have named a 25man training squad for next year's World Cup qualifying tournament.
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Jak sie masz. My name is Borat. And here is my learnings on England football players for make benefit of Kazakhstan national team.
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Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard will play in midfield as England manager Fabio Capello aims for new England era.
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Another withdrawal forces Ireland to draw in two players from their World Cup standby squad.
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Patience pays, an adage says, and with a growing interest in world music, contemporary musicians are at last getting their share of limelight.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity appears to increase the risk of miscarriage, according to a review study appearing in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - About two months before the release of his band's third studio album, "When the World Comes Down," All-American Rejects singer/bassist Tyson Ritter is spending most of his free time drinking beer and engaging in kite-flying wars on the beaches of Northern Florida.
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