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Climate disasters are getting worse, but fewer people are dying thanks to better warning systems and planning, says a top UN official. "Fewer people are dying of disasters and if you look at that as a proportion of total population, it's even fewer," the new United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore, head the UN's office for disaster risk reduction, said. “Twenty years ago there was no tsunami early warning system except for one small part of the world. Now the whole world is covered by a tsunami warning system," he said, referring to the 2004 tsunami that claimed approximately ...
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Temperatures of more than 50C have been recorded in parts of northern and central India. On Tuesday, a record-breaking 49.9C was seen in the Mungeshpur and Narela suburbs of the capital city Delhi, breaking the previous high of 49.2C seen in 2022. Some reports suggest that the capital city may have been even hotter on Wednesday afternoon, breaching 50C. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that temperatures were around 9C higher than expected for this time of year. North Indian states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, and Delhi have been gripped by intense heat. On Tuesday, the city o...
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Kahului (United States) (AFP) - The first Vilma Reed knew there was a fire bearing down on Lahaina was when she saw it a few yards (meters) from her house. Like many of those who fled the fast-moving blaze that killed at least 80 people on the Hawaiian island of Maui, she got no official warning and no order to evacuate. "You know when we found that there was a fire? When it was across the street from us," the 63-year-old told AFP in an evacuation center parking lot. "The mountain behind us caught on fire and nobody told us jack." Reed herded her daughter, grandson and two pet cats into the ca...
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