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Western New York braces for flooding as heavy snow melts
2014-11-23 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Emergency workers filled thousands of sandbags on Sunday as the area around Buffalo, New York braced for potential flooding as warming temperatures began to melt up to seven feet (2 meters) of snow. Hundreds of members of the New York National Guard were in Erie County and Buffalo to help with flood prevention after days of work to clear roads and dig homes and cars out of the record snow from a storm that killed 13 people. The National Weather Service said roads could flood quickly from snow...
New York braces for flooding as warming trend follows epic snowstorm
2014-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Even though her street was buried under 3 feet of snow, Jean Ulrich considered herself lucky so far. The octogenarian and lifelong resident of Bowmansville, just outside Buffalo, has seen lots of snow before but never, she said, like last week. Epic lake-effect snowfall pummeled the Buffalo region, dumping about 80 inches of snow, causing at least 13 deaths and virtually shutting down highways for days with thousands of stranded cars. This weekend the snow stopped, but more weather turmoil...
Liberia Braces for Next National Crisis: A Crude Oil Boom
2014-11-10 19:55:50| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
NEW YORK -- Forget Ebola. The next big thing to come out of Liberia may be crude oil.
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With storms intensifying, Milwaukee braces for bigger floods
2014-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Back when Pabst Blue Ribbon was for working folks -- not hipsters -- the brewery was a Milwaukee icon, bustling along the western edge of the city's central business district. Hitting hard times, Pabst left town a couple decades ago. But now the site infamous for cheap lager has permeable roads, abundant gardens and an underground tunnel to catch excess rainwater. It has re-emerged a symbol of how Milwaukee is greening to keep pace with a changing climate. The site's developer, Joseph J....
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MAVEN captures first images of Mars atmosphere, braces for close comet flyby
2014-10-15 14:28:01| Extremetech
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which arrived at Mars last month, has sent back its first images of the Red Planet's atmosphere as it was battered by a large solar storm. These images are the first of their kind, providing us with information about Mars' ozone layer, and the tenuous oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen coronas at the edge of Mars' atmosphere. These coronas can tell us what the conditions on Mars might've been like over the last four billion years, detailing how the planet went from being warm and wet (and perfectly suited to harboring life), to the cold, dry, dusty sphere that it is today.
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