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Air France: Pilots' strike hits Euro 2016

2016-06-12 00:20:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The French national airline, Air France, asks passengers to check their flight status before travelling, as a pilots' strike coinciding with Euro 2016 causes it to cancel flights.

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'Climate change implicated in France floods'

2016-06-11 04:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AFP: Torrential rains which caused flooding in France recently bore the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, according to research to be submitted to a scientific journal next week. Global warming, especially in the last 50 years, had almost doubled the likelihood of the kind of three-day downpour that burst the banks of the Seine and Loire rivers, they calculated. At the very least, the probability of such an extreme rainfall event had increased by more than 40 per cent. "We found that...

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Climate change implicated in France floodsl: study

2016-06-10 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AFP: Torrential rains which caused flooding in France recently bore the unmistakable fingerprint of climate change, according to research to be submitted to a scientific journal next week. Global warming, especially in the last 50 years, had almost doubled the likelihood of the kind of three-day downpour that burst the banks of the Seine and Loire rivers, they calculated. At the very least, the probability of such an extreme rainfall event had increased by more than 40 percent. "We found that...

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Texas and France Have Both Suffered Dramatic Flooding

2016-06-10 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlterNet: Denison Dam is located about 90 miles north of Dallas, Texas, and is part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District's 32 dam flood control system. After record-breaking rains fell May and June 2015 in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, Denison Dam stored flood water to minimize the impacts from flooding. Texas and France have a number of things in common. Theyre roughly the same size. They were both republics. They have delectable, widely loved cuisines. And, just last week, both were battered...

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France to formally ratify Paris climate accord on June 15 - Minister

2016-06-10 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: President Francois Hollande will formally sign the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, June 15, making France the first industrialized nation to ratify the landmark accord, Environment Minister Segolene Royal said on Friday. France's Senate adopted a bill authorizing the government to ratify the agreement on Wednesday after a near unanimous vote by the lower house in May, Royal told a carbon pricing forum in Paris. Royal, who is the current chair of the United Nations climate talks COP21,...

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