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MORE pensioners freeze to death in Britain every winter than in Scandinavian countries because of Tory inaction, a Labour MP said last night.
Dan Jarvis staged a Commons debate on the “unacceptable” annual rise in the number of older and vulnerable people who perish during cold weather.
There were a shocking 43,900 “excess winter deaths” last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
MARK JONES responds to issues raised in the recent report from Richard Hebbert on the Communist Party’s Congress debate on nuclear power
