Freak Weather

Four Villages Hit By Tidal Waves In Aceh

Mauritius- Six missing after freak waves;
Mauritius weather services reported waves of larger than three metres off the coast of the Indian Ocean islands at the weekend, and warned of further large waves on Monday.

Giant waves thrash Reunion Island

Tanzania-10 children drown as dhow capsizes

Maldives experiencing tidal waves across the country

Climate change to make one billion refugees;

In its report "Human tide: The real migration crisis", Christian Aid said that as the developed world was responsible for most of the climate-changing pollution, it should bear the brunt of the cost of helping those worst hit by it -- the poor.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that by 2080 up to 3.2 billion people -- one third of the planet's population -- will be short of water, up to 600 million will be short of food and up to 7 million will face coastal flooding.

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