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Is India committed to a climate change policy?
Mar 10 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

India presents a peculiar picture of greenhouse gas emission. India’s total carbon dioxide emission is fourth largest in the world after United States, China and Russia but its per capita level of emission at 1.2 tons annually is much lower than...

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Up to 4,000 buried in Indonesian quake rubble
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Typhoon batters northern Philippines
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A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
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Sitting on the edge of natural disaster
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The Chaiten volcano in northern Patagonia, Chile, had been dormant for 9,500 years under its obsidian dome before erupting spectacularly and without warning one year...
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Flood claims 50 lives in Afghanistan
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Due to severe flooding and resultant deaths and damages the department of Natural Disaster Management has imposed emergency in some parts of the country. The death...
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Powerful Italian quake kills many
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At least 50 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say. Five children are said to be among the dead and many...
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New Zealand to aid Fiji despite sanctions
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New Zealand will provide up to $100,000 in aid to Fiji in the wake of floods that have left seven people dead. However the money will go directly to the Red Cross...
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Early warning systems in disaster risk management
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Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
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Awareness on climate change
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Politics Before People- Another Burmese Disaster
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As if the poor Burmese people hadn’t already suffered enough under a brutally oppressive, communist regime, they suffered further loss and damage at a...
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