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Arizona Floods Sweep Away Buildings And Vehicles
2015-07-19 17:09:32| Energy - Topix.net
Up to 3,000 home and businesses were left without power as more than 50 electricity poles were knocked down, according to the Arizona Public Service. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued by the National Weather Service for Maricopa County early in the evening on Saturday before flooding hit the state's capital and largest city Phoenix.
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Ghana destroys hundreds of homes in capital in bid to prevent floods
2015-06-21 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighborhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods. Some residents said security forces sprayed them with tear gas after they threw stones to protect their livelihoods from the bulldozers. By evening, thousands were stranded in the rain amid rubble and household goods strewn for more than a mile. "What they have done is not...
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VIDEO: Pakistan floods spur new businesses
2015-06-16 03:19:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Rebuilding and reconstruction has created new opportunities - and new businesses - for women in the Punjab.
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Floods as war weapons
2015-06-09 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study shows that, from 1500 until 2000, about a third of floods in southwestern Netherlands were deliberately caused by humans during wartimes. Some of these inundations resulted in significant changes to the landscape, being as damaging as floods caused by heavy rainfall or storm surges. The work, by Dutch researcher Adriaan de Kraker, is published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). During the Eighty Years' War, as the Spanish army fought...
Texas Floods to Bring Cheaper Beef as Fields Finally Turn Green
2015-06-03 00:25:39| Food - Topix.net
All that changed when the rains starting arriving in March and kept falling. May was the state's wettest month on record, and now there is more green grass than the cattle can eat.
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