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Sea level limbo in the Caribbean: How low can you go?
2013-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WLRN: The folks in the Bahamas hamlet of Dunmore Town seem blissfully unaware of sea level rise. One resort hotel operator I called in Dunmore, which sits on Harbour Island, dismissed it altogether. I was just down at our beachside bar, she said. I didnt notice the sea level rising. (Yes, she was serious.) I told her Id call back in 50 years. Thats because recent studies warn that by then, if sea level rise projections of about three feet or more in this century are correct, three-fourths...
Vicon and Axis Introduce Partnership to Latin American and Caribbean Integrators
2013-11-01 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Edgewood, NY — Vicon Industries Inc., a leading designer and producer of integrated IP video surveillance systems and Axis Communications, a world leader in network video, announced their partnership for applications development at an event held in Mexico City on October 15, 2013. Attended by highest-level Axis integrators from Central America and the Caribbean, the conference provided a forum for Vicon to demonstrate its open platform video management system and its full ...This story is related to the following:Optics and Photonics Sponsored by: OFS Specialty Photonics Div - OFS Cat Sponsor for Vert Banner replacementSurveillance Cameras | Video Cameras
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Caribbean Looks to the Sky for Water Security
2013-10-27 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A centuries-old system for ensuring water security is making a comeback in the Caribbean. It`s known as rainwater harvesting, and it is now becoming a formal part of the region`s strategic planning in the face of not only more and stronger storms, but droughts as well. By 2100, there could be a 20 to 30 percent decrease in precipitation, research shows, making every drop count."The first thing to go in hurricanes is the water." -- Lovaan Superville of NIHERST "Rainwater harvesting is, in fact,...
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VIDEO: Serving up Caribbean in Singapore
2013-09-13 03:52:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
As part of our series on entrepreneurs in Asia, Chris Morris tells us about his restaurant LIME House, which he hopes will bring a taste of the Caribbean to Singapore.
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Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...
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