Sentences with phrase «death toll in»

Instead, I learned about the rising death toll in Orlando.

THE UK is being hit by its worst winter death toll in 42 years,... temperatures are set to dip again in April after the chilliest March in 21 years.

Britain has just suffered its worst winter death toll in 42 years.

Highest Palestinian death toll in a day since rallies dubbed the Great March of Return began at the fence with Israel.

The official death toll in Puerto Rico from Maria is 58, with at least 26 of these being direct deaths (due to drowning or wind - related effects).

Research published last year, for instance, shows that climate change is adding to the death toll in India by making heat waves worse and «will lead to substantial increases in heat - related mortality» in the coming century.

The death toll in Joplin was so high in large part because so many buildings were damaged or destroyed.

A host of environmental problems have this characteristic — from the erosion of biological diversity to the daily death toll in developing countries from drinking tainted water or inhaling smoke from unvented cooking fires.

That is why the death toll in the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake near Katmandu today is almost certainly going to be far higher than initial reports of hundreds.

The death toll in this disaster is over 20,000 people....

I remember the high death toll in the European heatwave of 2003 was more attributed to the high night temps that did not give people a chance to recuperate from the higher day temps.

By Rasmus Benestad & Michael Mann Just as Typhoon Nargis has reminded us of the destructive power of tropical cyclones (with its horrible death toll in Burma — around 100,000 according to the UN), a new paper by Knutson et al in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geosciences purports to project a reduction in Atlantic hurricane activity (principally the «frequency» but also integrated measures of powerfulness).

The death toll in China now is around 15,000 with 20,000 people still missing (and presumed dead, which is what «still missing» means in news - speak).

... money money money...» This season's muscle flexing among elite Manhattan dealers feels bizarrely out of touch, given the rising death toll in Afghanistan, and the precariousness of our economy.

In the six years immediately preceding the Hayden Act, the dog and cat death toll in California shelters fell from 717,000 dogs (1991) to 588,000 (1997).

The fire, which burned from October 8th — October 10th, 1871, had a death toll in the hundreds, and destroyed almost four square miles of the city, although many believe that the rebuilding that followed helped Chicago transform into the city we know now.

Aside from the death toll in Avengers: Infinity War, one of the movie's biggest surprises was the reintroduction of Captain America's former nemesis, the Red Skull, albeit in a far different role than he held when he debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

So when he heard on April 25 that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had struck near Gorkha, Nepal, not far from Kathmandu, he thought he knew what to expect — utter devastation throughout Kathmandu and a death toll in the hundreds of thousands.

Some 400 of the big aquatic mammals died in 1996, the largest death toll in 22 years and nearly double the previous record.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

Although the overall death toll in Afghanistan has risen, the increase was not wrought by soldiers.

But more powerful tremors — which could add to the death toll in the days, weeks, or months to come — are possible, the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks (CGR) cautioned in a report produced on Thursday.

The hurricane's death toll in the United States climbed to 113 over the weekend, with 48 fatalities in New York and 24 in New Jersey, the Los Angeles Times reported.

During a recent meeting in Amherst, many in attendance seemed startled by the death toll in their town from overdoses of heroin and prescription drugs.

SOUTH BRONX — The death toll in the worst outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in New York City history has risen to 12, and the number of people infected has gone up to 113, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a press conference Monday afternoon.

Death toll in the New Year massacre in Ogba - Egbema - Ndoni Local Government area of Rivers State has risen to twenty one.

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has revealed that death toll in last Friday night's attack on Tarfi village, Binnev Ward in Buruku Local Government area of...

(CNN)- Bob Costantini and Candy Crowley discuss guests on State of the Union and the issues of Charles Rangel's ethics charges, plus the growing U.S. death toll in Afghanistan.

The Erie County Legislature approved a $ 1.67 billion budget for next year that slightly reduces the property tax rate for the second year in a row and focuses more attention on the heroin and opioid epidemic that is contributing to the rising drug death toll in Erie County.

«Haiti's population is about half that of New York City's metro area, yet even a glancing blow from Sandy carried a higher death toll in the Caribbean nation than did the direct hit on the Big Apple,» Kenny wrote.

The death toll in the last weekend armed bandits» attack on Gwaska Community in Birnin - Gwari Local Government of Kaduna State has increased to 58, as more bodies were recovered from the town and surrounding environs.

Colorado licensed midwives are required to submit their outcome data directly to the state and the death rate is appalling (Inexcusable homebirth death toll in Colorado keeps rising).

And the homebirth death toll in Oregon will include stories like this one reported in the Register Guardian:

Indeed, homebirth with an American homebirth midwife is the most dangerous form of planned birth in the US (See Homebirth kills babies, Homebirth with a direct entry midwife is th most dangerous form of planned birth, and Inexcusable homebirth death toll in Colorado keeps rising).

With the news that the death toll in Haiti has topped 200,000, the U.N. has asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to oversee aid and reconstruction on the island nation...

Meanwhile, even before the new attacks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said the death toll in Syria is at least 3,500 since March...

The death toll in Syria has risen sharply after government forces tried to recapture Homs, Syria's third - largest city and home to armed resistance fighters.

But as the death toll in the opioid epidemic quickly rises to staggering new heights, experts say that fighting it is much more complicated than simply passing legislation.

He contends that your religion is akin to a mental disease with a death toll in the high hundreds of millions.

John Mutter, a disaster expert at Columbia University who studied the death toll in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, told Vox that he suspects the death toll in Puerto Rico from Maria will reach into the hundreds.

Florida officials said the death toll in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge has climbed to six.

The death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria has more than doubled to 34, a spokesman for Governor Ricardo Rosello said on Tuesday.

We spoke with Cacioppo about why more people report chronic loneliness than they did 20 years ago, why this uptick may contribute to the rising death toll in the U.S., and whether or not the condition can be mitigated via medication.

The relatively limited death toll in Friday's incident speaks to how fast officials were able to respond, he says.

Unlike other tragic mass shootings with high death tolls in the recent past, though, it didn't fade from the headlines in the weeks afterward.

How would that sound cool after the death tolls in 2004 and 2011?

«We're going to see death tolls in numbers that we can't imagine now,» he warned.

[6] Ben Kiernan, «The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975 - 79, and East Timor, 1975 - 80,» in Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial & Justice in Cambodia & East Timor (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2008), 270 - 71.

These become ever more important as resources become scarce and the quality of human life lessens — just remember the recent factory collapses and death tolls in India as a direct result of our need for new things.

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So far, only a handful of deaths have been formally confirmed, but when combined with suspected deaths, US media reported that the toll could be 30 so far — and still rising — as floodwaters recede in some areas and bodies are found.