A charity warns that a quarter of a million kids might lose their lives next year due to adverse effects of climate change.
A charity warns that a quarter of a million kids might lose their lives next year due to adverse effects of climate change.
Save the Children insists that figure could rise to more than 400,000 by 2030.
Easy Lifestyle Improvements For You To Fight Climate Change
The United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of France's total annual emissions by getting Americans to make simple lifestyle changes, like regularly maintaining
The United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of France's total annual emissions by getting Americans to make simple lifestyle changes, like regularly maintaining
Experts believe that almost 175 million children per year are likely to suffer the consequences of natural disasters like cyclones, droughts and floods by 2030.
They further say that more than 900 million children in the next generation will be affected by water shortages and 160 million more children will be at risk of catching malaria - one of the biggest killers of children under five - as it spreads to new parts of the world.
US Still To Grapple With Health Problems Arising From Climate Change
Health Problems Heat Up, a report brought out by Trust for America’s Health, a Washington-based health advocacy group, examines U.S. planning for changing health threats posed by climate change.
Health Problems Heat Up, a report brought out by Trust for America’s Health, a Washington-based health advocacy group, examines U.S. planning for changing health threats posed by climate change.
"Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
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India, Japan Agree to Work Together on Climate Change Issue
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama have agreed to work together in a positive and constructive way on the climate change issue.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama have agreed to work together in a positive and constructive way on the climate change issue.
"I've seen how vulnerable children are to the effects of climate change," he added.
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