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The islanders who are experts with cash
2015-10-16 22:49:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Where in Britain are people most careful with their cash?
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The Move NY plan is Islanders' best transportation bet
2015-07-26 00:31:40| Railroads - Topix.net
The controversial plan being looked at by Mayor de Blasio would impose tolls on Manhattan-bound drivers on East River bridges that are currently free and slash tolls on other spans, including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge turns 50 and the MTA celebrates at the over look at Ft.
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An Islander's Bid to Be the World's First Climate Refugee
2015-03-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: As Tropical Cyclone Pam ripped through the South Pacific earlier this month, Ioane Teitiota was 2,600 miles away in New Zealand checking Facebook for updates from friends and relatives back in Kiribati, a string of coral atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. The devastation wrought by the category five storm underscores the uncertain future faced by many in small Pacific Island nations as extreme weather events and climate change intensify. Its a fate already being tested by Teitiota,...
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Radiation, climate force Bikini Islanders to seek US refuge
2015-03-22 16:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A tiny central Pacific community, forced to evacuate their homes because of US nuclear testing, are now demanding refuge in the United States as they face a new threat from climate change. "We want to relocate to the United States," Nishma Jamore, mayor of the atoll of Bikini, said on the weekend as Pacific waters continued to eat away at the small Kili and Ejit islands in the far-flung Marshall Islands archipelago. Jamore heads a community of about 1,000 islanders who have lived in exile on...
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Did Climate Change Condemn Easter Islanders?
2015-02-01 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: The mysteries of the most isolated island in the world, Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, have baffled anthropologists and other scientists for generations, and one question about the curious inhabitants who erected those great, strange heads is what happened to the people who made them. The island is best known for 887 monumental rock statues, weighing up to 82 tons and mysteriously moved over considerable distances by ancient people who had no beasts of burden, but that's only part...
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