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Inventive water harvesting helps Kenya balance rain extremes
2015-02-10 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Samuel Lontogunye has long weathered regular shortages of water and food. But he believes a recent addition to his drought-prone village could change that: a water harvesting plant. Lontogunye, 69, and other members of his community on the fringes of Kenya's Rift Valley have built a weir at the nearby Ngeng' river to capture and store water which would otherwise drain away during periods of heavy rainfall. The weir, a concrete barrier that stretches across the river, allows water to pool behind...
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Team Building 1,397-ft 432 Park Avenue Tower Went to Extremes to Make It White
2015-01-28 19:24:24| ENR.com: Headline News
First high-strength concrete supertower with white concrete puts team on edge.
Extremes concern as planet gets hotter and colder
2014-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Global average temperatures continue to rise, but new research shows that the extremes of heat and cold are rising even faster. Scientists report that heat waves have got hotter and cold snaps have got colder at a more extreme rate and that continuing greenhouse gas emissions will mean that, in another two decades, Europe could experience once every two years the sort of lethal heat waves that occurred once in a thousand years. Scott Robeson, professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington...
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How world predicting and preparing for climate extremes
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: If we look at the hard facts of climate change, science is telling us we're running out of time. That's what Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said during a panel at the 2014 Social Good Summit on Sunday. Moderated by Mashable's senior climate reporter Andrew Freedman, the panel focused on what actions we're taking to make cities more resilient in the face of climate-related extremes over the next 15 years. Prepping society for increased climate...
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Bad news for Republicans: IPCC report warns 'irreversible' climate extremes
2014-08-28 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Republicans won't be happy about the leaked Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report on Monday, because it contains the most dire predictions about climate change to date, which is something they don't believe exists. The report is shocking in its bluntness, because it warns human-induced climate change may have already reached the tipping point and be past the point of no return and "irreversible". The IPCC report is the 4th installment of the 5th periodic climate progress...
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