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Oil Train Derails in Columbia River Gorge, Rally Calls for Ban on Bomb Trains
2016-06-05 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A unit train carrying crude oil derailed near Mosier, Oregon, Friday. Mosier schools were evacuated and a large black plume of smoke filled the sky with visible flames. The train was carrying crude oil on the Union Pacific rail line. The placards on the train said 1267--signifying that the trains were carrying crude oil. "I never thought I`d see an oil train derail and burn in my community," Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper, said. "I watched in horror as the red...
Protest and oil sheen on Columbia river follow Oregon train derailment
2016-06-05 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmental crews worked on Saturday to contain a sheen of oil that appeared in the Columbia river along the Washington-Oregon border after a Union Pacific train derailed and caught fire. Officials said there was no immediate indication of harm to wildlife. Sixteen of the 96 tank cars on the train derailed on Friday near Mosier, Oregon, about 70 miles east of Portland. Four burned, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the sky before firefighters were able to extinguish the flames a little...
French PM Valls says Seine river stable after floods kill four
2016-06-04 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Floods that inundated parts of France this week, killing four and forcing thousands from their homes, could start easing as the Seine river stabilized after reaching a peak on Saturday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. The floods, the worst the French capital has seen since 1982, forced its famous Louvre and Orsay museums to move scores of artworks and precious artifacts to safety. It also disrupted traffic in several areas. The Seine river rose to about 6.10 meters (20.0 ft) on Saturday...
France floods: third person dies as river levels begin to fall
2016-06-04 13:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A third person has died in France from the countrys worst flooding in decades, as the death toll across Europe reached at least 17 in a week. The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, did not give any details about the latest victim of the floods, which caused the river Seine in Paris to rise to 6.1 metres (20ft) overnight. A 74-year-old man and an 86-year-old woman were killed in flooding in France earlier this week, along with 11 people in Germany, two in Romania and one in Belgium. A further...
'There's something terrifying about it': rise of the river Seine
2016-06-03 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Incredible, thats all I can say, muttered Catherine, a publishing editor, as she stared dumbfounded at the river water that had swallowed up the busy road running along the banks of the Seine near her Paris apartment. Roads and picturesque cobbled walkways in the French capital have disappeared, submerged by a vast expanse of brown river water carrying an unusual assortment of debris including logs, big wooden planks and a metal sign from a boat-club in its angry, swirling current. The rain-swollen...
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