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'Catastrophic' substation fire causes power outage for Hillsboro area
2015-06-07 16:02:30| Energy - Topix.net
A fire in an electrical substation at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday has knocked out power to the Hillsboro area. According to American Electric Power, about 8,000 customers were affected by the outage.
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VIDEO: Varoufakis: 'Catastrophic to leave euro'
2015-05-24 12:35:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says if Greece left the euro, it would spell the end of Europe's common currency.
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Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change
2015-05-17 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Royal Dutch Shell has been accused of pursuing a strategy that would lead to potentially catastrophic climate change after an internal document acknowledged a global temperature rise of 4C, twice the level considered safe for the planet. A paper used for guiding future business planning at the Anglo-Dutch multinational assumes that carbon dioxide emissions will fail to limit temperature increases to 2C, the internationally agreed threshold to prevent widespread flooding, famine and desertification....
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Carbon time-bomb Siberia threatens catastrophic climate change
2015-05-11 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express: Experts have said thawing permafrost in little-known peat bogs in the frozen Russian wilderness could expedite the global warming process. Vast swathes of marshland in Siberia are starting to emit greenhouse gases 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The threat comes from bogs around the size of mainland France which absorbed carbon dioxide over thousands of years before freezing over during the last Ice Age. Now for the first time in 11,000 years, the thick permafrost...
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Vanuatu: Cyclone Pam brings catastrophic death, destruction
2015-03-14 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: AID workers say eight people are confirmed dead in Vanuatu after a massive cyclone tore through the tiny South Pacific archipelago and the death toll is expected to rise much higher. Chloe Morrison, a World Vision emergency communications officer in Port Vila, said Sunday that officials from Vanuatu`s National Disaster Management Office confirmed to her agency that eight people in and around the capital had died during the cyclone. She says officials haven`t been able to assess the damage in...
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