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Revealed: how Tory cuts wrecking UK flood defence
2016-01-02 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Many of Britains flood defences are being abandoned or maintained to minimal levels because of government cuts that could leave almost twice as many households at significant risk within 20 years, according to a leaked document submitted to ministers. The paper, written by the body representing all major organisations responsible for flood defences, was presented to ministers on 30 November last year days before Cumbria was hit by the heaviest rainfall recorded in 24 hours in Britain. It was...
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Yet another way that humans are wrecking tropical forests
2015-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: If the world is going to meet its goal of limiting planetary warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, well have to burn dramatically fewer fossil fuels -- but thats not enough. Well also need nature on our side, and that means dramatically halting the rate of deforestation so that tropical forests around the world stop losing their carbon to the atmosphere (currently contributing between 7 to 17 percent of global emissions) and start pulling it in again. A new study...
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Urban Sprawl Wrecking Italian Farmland through Landslides
2015-09-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ITALY – Reduced rainfall infiltration caused by concreting over grasslands is putting rural communities at risk from landslides, warns an Italian farm group.
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Demolition Porn: Midwood's Historic Vitagraph Studios Gets Wrecking Ball
2015-04-19 02:08:17| Real Estate - Topix.net
Despite a valiant preservation effort led by various neighborhood groups in Midwood and film and history buffs alike, the complex that served as the epicenter of Brooklyn's early film production industry is in the process of being torn down.
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What the hell are they doing?: How Canadas anti-science leaders are wrecking the Arctic
2015-02-01 05:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: If you want to know what climate change looks like, turn your gaze north to the Arctic. There, you can see the sea ice beginning to disappear, storms gaining in intensity and entire villages preparing to pack up and leave as the land crumbles beneath their feet. Within the next 20 years, the Arctic Ocean will see ice-free summers; within the next 30, we`ll have lost two-thirds of the world`s polar bears. As Edward Struzik explains in "Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge," an engaging...