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Impossible Choice Faces America's First 'Climate Refugees'
2013-05-18 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Climate change is a stark reality in America's northernmost state. Nearly 90 percent of native Alaskan villages are on the coast, where dramatic erosion and floods have become a part of daily life. Perched on the Ninglick River on the west coast of the state, the tiny town of Newtok may be the state's most vulnerable village. About 350 people live there, nearly all of them Yupik Eskimos. But the Ninglick is rapidly rising due to ice melt, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the highest point...
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Americas first climate refugees: Its happening now The village is sinking
2013-05-18 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village. Stanley Tom, Newtok`s administrator, had a clear purpose for his trip: find the money to move the village on the shores of the Bering Sea out of the way of an approaching disaster caused by climate change. Newtok was rapidly losing ground to erosion. The land beneath the village was falling into the river. Tom needed money for bulldozers...
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The House Designers Design House Plans for Americas Baby Boomers
2013-05-18 05:55:35| The House Designers
Recent studies by the National Home Builders Association and AARP show that baby boomers are leading the push in new home construction trends, influencing how builders, designers and architects modify their floor plans to meet varied lifestyles and changing needs. Todays 77 million Baby Boomers [...]
Buick: America's oldest active car brand turning 110 years old
2013-05-16 16:29:31| Automakers - Topix.net
General Motors, the brand's owner, was going through its largest restructuring in history, and many thought Buick and its tri-shield logo were on the cutting block with the likes of Hummer, SAAB, Saturn and possibly even Pontiac.
Hopes of Americas sale rise as Thyssen takes writedown
2013-05-15 15:56:01| Steel - Topix.net
Producer prices recorded their largest drop in three years in April as gasoline and food costs tumbled, pointing to weak inflation pressures that should give the Federal Reserve latitude to keep monetary policy very accommodative.
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