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Wastewater Plants Still Vulnerable
2014-02-09 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: More than a year after superstorm Sandy, a messy problem has lingered: How to prevent storm surges from crippling sewerage systems and causing untreated wastewater to spill into waterways and homes. Sewerage systems across the New York City region are undertaking costly attempts to fortify against future storms, after Sandy sent billions of gallons of raw and partially treated waste into waterways and swatches of suburbia. In Yonkers, where the wastewater treatment plant couldn't completely...
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Despite Record Earnings, Whirlpool Seems Vulnerable To Latin American Disruption
2014-01-31 06:31:02| Appliances - Topix.net
Whirlpool just ended a record year with revenues of $18.8 billion and net income of $827 million or $10.24 a share doubling 2012's $401 million or $5.06 per share.
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Climate Change Threatens Vulnerable Penguin Chicks
2014-01-30 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Lacking their parents` waterproof feathers, penguin chicks covered in down can suffer and die from hypothermia after being exposed to drenching rain despite efforts of their concerned parents to keep them safe. While previous studies have found that singular events, like a rare Antarctic rainstorm, can threaten penguin chicks, a new study in the journal PLOS ONE has identified the additional risk long-term climate change trends have for the survival of these tiny birds. "It`s the first long-term...
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Java's security dilemma: Old, vulnerable versions won't go away
2014-01-21 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Users of Java are caught between a rock and a hard place. They often need an older version of Java to run their applications, but those aged releases are susceptible to security breaches, which have plagued Java in recent years.
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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Vulnerable to La Nia Events, Researchers Find
2014-01-03 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Pine Island Glacier melting is more vulnerable to climatic variations caused by La Nia events than previously assumed, a new study reported. The present study was conducted by researchers at British Antarctic Survey along with their colleagues at University of Washington and other institutions. The team found that the melting of the ice-shelf decreased by 50 percent between the years 2010 and 2012. La Nina might have led to this decrease in melting, according to the researchers. La Nia is...
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