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Tipping Point Nears for Emerging Flooding Crisis
2014-12-19 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Soggy times are coming for cities along both U.S. coasts and they'll be here much quicker than previously thought. By mid-century, sea level rise is set to make floods a monthly occurrence in more than two dozen major cities, and in some of those cities, it could become a daily occurrence by the 2070s. The watery findings come from a new study published Thursday and presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting. It builds on findings earlier this year from National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Putin to speak amid economic crisis
2014-12-18 08:24:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
President Vladimir Putin is set to hold his annual end-of-year news conference, amid a growing economic crisis in Russia.
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North Sea firms facing 'crisis'
2014-12-18 01:38:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The director of Premier Oil says no new North Sea projects are profitable with oil below $60 a barrel and the industry is "close to collapse".
'Creeping humanitarian crisis' in Central America? Droughts lead crop loss
2014-12-17 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador had been forced into conditions of food insecurity. The drought in the three countries is turning into a creeping humanitarian crisis, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UNs humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva. Subsistence farmers, farm labourers and low-income families were especially at risk, with young children and pregnant...
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Russians fear return to 1998 crisis
2014-12-17 02:05:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Can Russia avoid economic disaster?
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