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Warming the world
Scientists say that 1998 was the hottest year in the past 1,200 years
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Blistering heat
FARMERS in the us are having a hard time as they have lost million of dollars following a catastrophic drought. According to reports, the blistering heat has killed more than 130 people across the
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California suffers more blackouts
California energy officials, citing a spring heat wave and soaring air conditioning demand, ordered rolling blackouts on Monday, hitting some 250,000 to 300,000 customers, to avoid collapsing the
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A cool shower for nuclear plant
Amid a brutal heat wave sweeping France, technicians sprayed cold water on a nuclear power plant to see whether the technique helps keeps the reactor from overheating, utility officials said. Teams
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Heat takes toll on power supply
Soaring temperatures took a toll on power supply in the state capital today as overheated transformers at the Hatia grid forced the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) to enforce blackouts throughout Ranchi as a precautionary measure.
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Australian heat wave claims fourteen lives
A heat wave in the tropical state of Queensland has left 14 people dead in just two days, authorities said Sunday. A spokeswoman for the Queensland Ambulance Service said most of the victims had been
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Drought unlikely , but heat wave to continue
Though an earth-shattering heat wave is currently sweeping the entire North-east leaving the lands parched, there are no apparent signs or threat of drought in the State. Official sources at the
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Eight die in Bangla heat wave
A heat wave sweeping across Bangladesh this week has killed eight people , including three children who died of dehydration, news reports said today.
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SA heatwave sparks toxic algae alert
Swimmers, anglers and sailors were put on red alert in South Australia's Spencer Gulf as a huge algal bloom began spreading during the weekend's heat wave. Pilots flying over South
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Storms cool Central U.S. as heat toll nears 200
Thunderstorms over the weekend cooled the central United States, but the death toll from this summer's heat wave neared 200 and the East Coast remained so hot that a farmer said his tomatoes were
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Rajasthan peacock deaths puzzle experts
As yet another peacock died in Jaipur taking the toll to 19 over the past week, experts are debating whether it is the heat wave or some other cause that is killing the wild birds. While the
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Heat wave toll 8 in Orissa
With three more deaths officiallly reported from Sambalpur district in western Orissa, the death toll in the current year's heat wave in the State had gone up to eight, official sources said here
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If you can't take the heat
Texans are coping well with the heat wave, whose record-breaking temperatures included 10 days of 100-degree-plus mercury in July. And they're used to drought, which has gripped much of the state for
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South-east Europe suffers in hot spell
Most of south-east Europe was still sweltering under a continuing summer heat wave that has damaged crops, destroyed thousands of hectares of woodlands, and broken temperature records across the
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Heat wave death toll rises to 37 in Europe
A dip in temperature and strong winds brought some relief from a heat wave that has scorched southeastern Europe, leaving at least 37 people dead so far and sending hundreds to hospitals. But the dry
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Heat wave takes 23 lives in Europe
High temperatures seared southeastern Europe, and left 23 people dead in a heat wave, sparked hundreds of fires and sent thermometers climbing to 45 degress centigrade, or 113 degress Fahrenheit. In
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Wildfires blaze across Europe
Hundreds of wildfires burned across southern Europe on Tuesday as the region remined in the grip of a heat wave that has driven temperatures as high as 120 degrees. In the Balkans, the sizzling
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Heat wave spectre looms over Orissa
Bewareof the Ides of May and June-- the warning for people of Orissa as the sprectre of a repeat of the 1998 killer heat wave in which over 2,000 people died throughout the state looms large and the
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Orissa takes measures to tackle likely heat wave
With the advent of summer, the Orissa government has intimated steps for tackling a possible heat wave situation the kind of which was experienced a couple of years ago. Over 2,000 people in Orissa