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Moscow Death Rate Doubles as Many Flee Heat, Smog

(Aug. 9) -- Moscow's death rate has doubled, a city health official said today, as a nearly unprecedented heat wave and acrid smog from wildfires grip the capital, causing tens of thousands to flee. "On normal days, between 360 and 380 die. Now it's around 700," Moscow's health chief, Andrei Seltsovsky, told the Interfax...

2010 Tracking as Hottest Ever: 7 Strange Things Extreme Heat Has Caused This Year

(July 28) -- According to a new report, 2010 is on pace to become the warmest year on record. Using data gathered by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the U.S. National Climatic Data Center, the UK Met Office compared temperatures for 2010 against those measured in 1998, the reigning hottest year in the...