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United Kingdom: Hundreds homes to be wiped from the West map by floods
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Morning News: Hundreds of homes are predicted to be wiped from the Westcountry map by flooding before the end of the century, previously unpublished figures show. An estimated 7,000 properties around England and Wales will be sacrificed to rising seas over the next century, according to the Environment Agency. Its analysis, based on current funding levels, projects that more than 800 will be lost over the next 20 years as coastlines erode because they are too costly to protect. Thousands of high-value...
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have nearly knocked off mammals, too
2014-12-17 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] thomas.williamson@state.nm.us 505-841-2835 Pensoft Publishers @Pensoft The extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is thought to have paved the way for mammals to dominate, but a new study shows that many mammals died off alongside the dinosaurs. Metatheria…
Whirlpool Lawsuit Settlement Wiped Out By Class Action Rejection
2014-12-05 01:26:06| Appliances - Topix.net
A federal judge has rejected the certification of a class action lawsuit against Whirlpool Corporation, wiping out a proposed settlement between the company and nearby Fort Smith neighbors who had filed complaints against Whirlpool. Fort Smith property owners filed a class action lawsuit last year against Whirlpool because of the company's contamination of nearby groundwater with the chemical TCE.
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Filipinos start over in city wiped out by typhoon
2013-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Rising from a sea of debris, the small, rickety shell of a new house already was beginning to take shape. Rolito Solayao worked swiftly Monday, using pieces of wood and nails scavenged from the wreckage of this coastal city. His wife swept dirt from the concrete floor, the only part of their home that survived when Typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines on Nov. 8. Asked her name, she let out a weary laugh: Yolanda, the name Filipinos gave to the storm. More than a week after...
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Climate change may have wiped out mammoths
2013-09-11 07:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change, scientists said on Wednesday. British and Swedish researchers sequenced DNA from 88 samples of mammoth bone, tooth and tusk, looking for a signature in the genetic code that is handed down on the maternal line. They used this telltale to build a family tree of mammoths spanning 200,000 years, across northern Eurasia and North America. They found two periods of big population...
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