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Rain and ice in central US linked to three deaths in flash flooding
2015-11-28 15:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Heavy rain and icy conditions are likely to stick around through most of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in parts of the central US due to a slow-moving, complex weather system thats being blamed for at least three flash-flooding deaths. Theres a pretty substantial shield of rain extending from parts of Texas across a lot of Oklahoma and into the mid-Mississippi Valley, said John Hart, a meteorologist with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The National Weather Service issued...
On ice: New rink opening at Pittsburgh's PPG Place delayed
2015-11-24 10:09:19| Real Estate - Topix.net
The rink was supposed to open Friday for the city's Light Up Night celebration heralding the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. HIghwoods Properties, which owns the PPG Place complex where the rink is located, say they plan to open the rink as soon as possible.
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On thin ice: Big northern lakes are being rapidly transformed
2015-11-20 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: For more than 25 million years, Lake Baikal has cut an immense arc from southern Siberia to the Mongolian border. The length of Florida and nearly the depth of the Grand Canyon, Baikal is the deepest, largest in volume, and most ancient freshwater lake in the world, holding one-fifth of the planets above-ground drinking supply. Its a Noahs Ark of biodiversity, home to myriad species found nowhere else on earth. Its also changing Pavelblazek/Wikimedia Commons Lake Baikal in March. Records show...
Polar bear numbers to fall as Arctic ice shrinks: Study
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Polar bear populations are likely to fall by more than 30 percent by around mid-century as global warming thaws Arctic sea ice, experts said on Thursday in the most detailed review of the predators to date. The report, by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), estimated there are between 22,000 and 31,000 polar bears in the Arctic and said they will be increasingly vulnerable as their habitat shrinks. "Climate change will continue to seriously threaten polar bear survival...
Wind storm power outages surpass '96 Ice Storm
2015-11-18 19:37:22| Energy - Topix.net
Leaders with Avista described the storm as "historic" when comparing it to the 1996 Ice Storm which happened on November 19. Wind storm power outages surpass '96 Ice Storm Leaders with Avista described the storm as "historic" when comparing it to the 1996 Ice Storm which happened on November 19. Check out this story on KREM.com: http://on.krem.com/1O1cXnv SPOKANE, Wash.- The wind stormed that rolled through the Inland Northwest on Tuesday night left more people in the dark than Ice Storm 1996 according to leaders at Avista Utilities. As of 9:00 p.m., Avista was sorting out more than 161,000 customers who were without power in Spokane County.
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