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Moscow: Worst Smog in Living Memory

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Sunday, 08 August 2010 12:14

Russian health officials are warning people in Moscow to stay inside and avoid physical exertion as smog from the worst wildfires in modern Russian history smothers the city.

Haze and smoke are spreading through Moscow's streets, even seeping into the Metro network, and some people are wearing face masks indoors.

Reports suggest the city's mortality rate rose by at least 30% in July.

The national death toll attributed directly to wildfires is 52.

Nearly 560 fires were still burning across central Russia as of Friday.

Of these, 39 were peat bog fires, 27 of them in the Moscow region alone, accounting for the acrid smoke choking the capital.

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Moscow Engulfed in Smog

 

Huge Greenland Glacier Cracks

Sunday, 08 August 2010 10:54

An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists have revealed.

The new ice island, which broke off on Thursday, will enter a remote place called the Nares Strait, about 620 miles south of the North Pole between Greenland and Canada.

The ice island has an area of 100 square miles (260 square km) and a thickness up to half the height of the Empire State Building, said Andreas Muenchow, professor of ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware.

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Greenland Glacier Disentigrating

 

2010: The Year of Extreme Global Weather

Extreme Weather

Thursday, 05 August 2010 10:56

While Pakistan has been hit by catastrophic flooding, Russia has endured a lethal heatwave.

Some 1,200 people have been killed in the deluges sweeping Pakistan, but in Moscow more than 30 are reported to have died in wildfires as temperatures have soared to a new record for the region of 38C (100F).

It marks out 2010 as the year of extreme weather - and experts predict the pronounced conditions will continue across the globe.

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The year of extreme weather

 

Deadly Floods Affect Millions in Pakistan

Extreme Weather

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 17:11

FLASH floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have so far killed up to 1500 people in Pakistan, a government minister confirmed this morning.

"There are 774 deaths registered with us, but the total number killed in the flood is 1200 to 1500," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told a news conference in Peshawar.

"There are 129 people still missing."

Pakistan's largest charity, the Edhi Foundation, and a northwest-based Cabinet minister earlier put the death toll at more than 1200.

But officials in other provinces who earlier gave a combined death toll of 128 effectively pushed the overall nationwide toll to more than 1300.

The International Committee of the Red Cross earlier announced that up to 2.5 million people across Pakistan were affected by the heavy flooding.

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