Sentences with phrase «kill tens of thousands»

Motor vehicle accidents injure and kill tens of thousands of people a year in the United States.

Strikes at high tension transmission and distribution power lines very conservatively kill tens of thousands of birds annually.

Somalia Will Need Food Aid Through Next August - Famine Will Kill Tens of Thousands Remember the famine in Somalia?

Here's what's caught our eye in climate change news this morning, beyond the obvious in the headline: The famine in Somalia (yeah, it's still happening) will likely kill tens of thousands of people by the time it's done, the wife of an MIT climate researcher has been targeted in hate mail (seriously out of hand, this), and, somewhat counterintuitively new research shows cold winters are being caused by warmer summers.

Cold weather conspired with corruption in the natural gas supply to kill tens of thousands of old people when the prices soared.

Bernard - my guess is that acidification is worse, but 2m SLR will kill tens of thousands, and even more indirectly by forcing them to move in developing countries.

Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.

Such an event could be a massive release of radiation due to a plant meltdown or a terrorist attack, and could kill tens of thousands of people as well as poison large areas with radioactivity.

He tells us tropical diseases will spread to mid latitudes and heat waves will kill tens of thousands.

They can't grasp this visceral reminder that emissions from coal plants kill tens of thousands of people across the nation every year.

To unravel the mystery, West will need to rely on all his journalistic skills... and kill tens of thousands of the undead!

Adverse drug reactions kill tens of thousands of people annually; one widely cited study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1998 puts the number at more than 100,000.

Heatwaves already kill tens of thousands of people, and even more will die as the thermostat rises.

Each year poachers kill tens of thousands of saiga.

Many leading scientists say the approaching El Niño looks similar in magnitude to the huge one that started in 1997 and went on to kill tens of thousands of people and cause tens of billions of dollars of damage.

Pesticides kill tens of thousands of migratory birds on their wintering grounds.

The threats coincided with a message from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who threatened to kill tens of thousands of Israeli civilians in a future confrontation by striking strategic sites with rockets.

They pray that our leaders will do just that kill tens of thousands or millions of Innocent people in gods name.

Or think about Ukraine, where recent fighting has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

Economic devastation and neglect — Changes by the B.C. Liberals to the Forest Act resulted in the concentration of ownership in the forest industry, reducing competition in many regions and ultimately killing tens of thousands of well - paying, family - supporting jobs.

There's also ridiculous threats from God in there that reflect on the knowledge and intelligence of anyone at the time who would accept the idea of unicorns, dragons, or angels that killed tens of thousands of people.

An «act of God» killing tens of thousands yields increased worship of God?

Umm... as a mostly christian nation, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan; we killed tens of thousands of people, including many whose only crime was to be in the way of a tank or bomb.

Well that would be nice but when your President bombs the crap out of a country and kills tens of thousand of innocent civilians because he believes his god told him it was the right thing to do then rational minds need to step up and expose the delusion.

Would not god be more likely to send to hell people who fostered two wars against people who had not even threatened us just so they could control more of the world's oil and killed tens of thousands of people in the process?

-- Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010

But in the U.S. alone the flu still kills tens of thousands of people and hospitalizes hundreds of thousands more.

A textbook example is the botulism outbreaks that have killed tens of thousands of birds on Lakes Michigan, Erie and Ontario.

ONE AND DONE The flu kills tens of thousands of people in the United States each year, and protection is made harder by the need for an annual shot.

It was suspected that a harsh drought from about 2000 to 2010 that killed tens of thousands of livestock was unprecedented in the region's history and primarily the result of human - caused climate change.

Yet before next spring, this season's lethal germ will probably have infected millions of Americans, killing tens of thousands.

The pathogen causes lethal trunk infections in several kinds of oaks, and it has killed tens of thousands in California.

The pneumonia in question is caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common soil bacterium, which each year kills tens of thousands of individuals in the United States alone.

JCU scientists at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) have discovered that the parasitic worm that kills tens of thousands of people every year may also supercharge recovery from wounds.

According to the CDC, influenza sickens millions, hospitalizes hundreds of thousands, and kills tens of thousands of people each year in the U.S.

If it's because of the panic surrounding the swine flu, he recommends looking at the facts: In the United States, seasonal flu kills tens of thousands more people every year than swine flu has so far in 2009.

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu - which kills tens of thousands each year - is dismissed with a yawn?

In developing nations, rabies kills tens of thousands of people; dogs are the vector in over 98 percent of cases.

Rabies kills tens of thousands of people in impoverished nations each year.

That is not a typo, he has literally taken over municipal shelters where killing tens of thousands of pets every year was the norm and stopped the killing of virtually all the animals in one day... seemingly with the flip of a switch.

Forbush lauded the Animal Rescue League of Boston and the American SPCA for killing tens of thousands of cats, presenting their data, but said little about what the data actually showed.

A devastating heat wave in Russia that killed tens of thousands — yet was very likely NOT caused by climate change, according to the scientists who methodically investigate that event.

We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human - induced climate change.»

A searing heat wave struck Moscow in late June 2010, spawning massive wildfires, killing tens of thousands, and cutting Russia's wheat crop by 40 %, contributing to a sharp spike in world food prices.

Why not start solving this problem, in our own community, and not with the small stuff, like bags and bottles, but with the big stuff like killing tens of thousands of trees and building unneeded dams and pipelines?

Analyzing how global warming has changed the odds for a specific event has been done for standout moments such as the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands.

Failed rains in the Horn of Africa threatened 13 million people with food scarcity and pushed unstable Somalia into famine, < killing tens of thousands of people.

And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»

Or is it the case that there have already been such events — e.g. the 2003 European heatwave that reportedly killed tens of thousands of people, or hurricane Katrina — but that since it can always be said that «no individual extreme event can be directly attributed to global warming», that no event, no matter how extreme, will ever cause the sort of «tipping point» in public consciousness that the 9/11 attacks did?

In return Jews killed tens of thousands of Poles as soon as the NKVD and Red Army came to Poland.