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ISLAMABAD 鈥?The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,150 people since mid-June.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Pakistans flooding stanley thermoskanne , caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains, were a signal stanley polska to the world to step up action against climate change. Lets stop sleepwalking toward the destruction of our planet by climate change, he said in a video message to an Islamabad ceremony launching the funding appeal. Today, its Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country. More than 33 million people, or one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the catastrophic flooding, which has devastated a country alread stanley termosy y trying to revive a struggling economy. More than 1 million homes have been damaged or destroyed in the past two and half months, displacing millions of people. Around a half million of those displaced are living in organized camps, while others have had to find their own shelter.Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the floods badly destroyed crops, and his government was considering importing wheat to avoid any shortage of food.Sharif said Pakistan was witnessing the worst flooding in its history and any inadvertent delay by the international community in helping victims will be devastating for the people of Pakistan. He promised funds from the international community would be spent in a transparent manner and that he would ensure Wltj Across U.S., thousands rallying and marching for LGBT rights

WASHINGTON 鈥?Heat-trapping pollution from U.S. power plants hit a 27-year low in April, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday.A big factor was the long-term shift from coal to cleaner and cheaper natural gas, said Energy Department economist Allen McFarland. Outside experts also credit more renewable fuel use and energy efficiency.Carbon dioxide 鈥?from the burning of coal, oil and gas 鈥?is the chief greenhouse gas responsible for man-made global warming. While good news for the environment, we certainly would not want to assume that this trend will continue and that we can simply relax, said John Reilly, co-director of MITs Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.Electric power plants spewed 141 million tons of carbon dioxide stanley website in April, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to Energy Department figures. Power plants are responsible for one-third of the countrys heat-trapping emissions.April emissions peaked at 192 million tons in 2008 and dropped by 26 percent in seven years.Car stanley ca bon pollution from power plants stanley cup hit their peak in August 2007 with 273 million tons; summer emissions are higher because air conditioning requires more power. In past years, experts said the U.S. reduction in carbon dioxide pollution was more a function of a sluggish economy, but McFarland said thats no longer the case. You dont have a 27-year low because of an economic blip, McFarland said. There are more things happening than that. @media screen and max-width