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New eHorizon system warns of road hazards just around the corner
2016-08-05 19:04:58| Extremetech
No need to wait for V2V (vehicle to vehicle) communication and warnings: eHorizon could upload travel speed and road hazards to the cloud within the next 2-3 years.
Portland wants your feedback on plan to reduce risk from earthquakes and other natural hazards
2016-08-03 21:13:11| PortlandOnline
Press release issued August 3, 2016.
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America's first floating wind farm comes with environmental and wildlife hazards
2016-07-31 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The deep waters off the coast of California could become home to the countrys largest offshore wind energy project and a test case for a technology that is still in its infancy. The 765-megawatt project, proposed by Seattle-based Trident Winds, would sit about 25 miles off Californias central coast, near the town of Cambria. If built, it will be larger than the 630-megawatt London Array off the coast of Kent, the worlds largest working offshore wind farm that began operating in 2013. The...
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OSHA Cites Macy's, The Finish Line for Electrical Shock Hazards
2016-07-26 23:25:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
A federal workplace safety inspection of the Macy's department store in Aventura, Fla., by OSHA found employees at risk due to repeated and serious violations read more
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From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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