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No end in sight as repair work on California's sinking land costs billions
2015-12-27 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A canal that delivers vital water supplies from northern California to southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches of a riverbed undergoing historic restoration. On farms, well casings pop up like mushrooms as the ground around them drops. Four years of drought and heavy reliance on pumping of groundwater have made the land sink faster than ever up and down the Central Valley, requiring repairs to infrastructure that experts say are costing billions of dollars. This slow motion land...
Oil price drops to lowest since 2009, sinking energy stocks
2015-12-07 23:53:16| Energy - Topix.net
A sharp drop in the price of oil on Monday rattled investors and helped push stocks lower across several industries. Investors sold from the start of trading following a decision by OPEC last week not to cut production.
Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder abyss
2015-11-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads. This is the hidden disaster of Californias drought. So much water has been pumped out of the ground that vast areas of the Central Valley are sinking, destroying millions of dollars in infrastructure in the gradual collapse. Four years of...
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Getting that sinking feeling in tortuous UN climate talks
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany Abdullahi Majeed was a young delegate for the Maldives when low-lying island states warned for the first time in 1989 that climate change and rising seas could "threaten the very survival" of some nations. Now a 60-year-old veteran, Majeed is still repeating that message, one of a handful of delegates to this month's Paris climate summit who have been attending tortuous U.N. negotiations to combat global warming from the start. "It's frustrating," he said. "The sense of urgency is simply...
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NTSB updates investigation into sinking of cargo ship.
2015-10-28 13:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In its continuing investigation of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas, NTSB has found that on February 13, 2015, El Faro successfully completed the American Bureau of Shipping class and statutory surveys. Annual inspection of El Faro, required by the USCG, was completed by qualified USCG inspectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 6, 2015. Vessel’s terminal manager reported that El Faro met stability criteria when it left Jacksonville.
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