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Climate change increasing flood risk in the UK
2014-05-01 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme rainfall and flooding in Britain, according to the findings of a pioneering new study presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference in Vienna on Wednesday. Following the wettest winter since records began in 1767, during which many parts of the UK were flooded for months, the Oxford University project concludes that manmade global warming has increased the risk of extreme rainfall in southern England and Wales by about 20-25%. At...
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Climate change to intensify important African weather systems
2014-05-01 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change could strengthen African easterly waves, which could in turn have consequences for rainfall in the Sahel region of northern Africa, formation of Atlantic hurricanes and dust transport across the Atlantic Ocean. Weather systems that bring rainstorms to many drought-prone areas of northern Africa, carry Saharan dust across the ocean and seed Atlantic hurricanes could grow stronger as a result of human-caused climate change, a new analysis by Stanford scientists suggests. Known...
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EPA Awards $860,000 To Communities To Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience To Climate Change
2014-05-01 07:51:48| pollutiononline News Articles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced $860,000 to help 14 communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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Natural gas industry chief: 'Man-made activity' contributes to climate change
2014-05-01 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: The head of a major natural gas trade organization said that human activity contributes to climate change and argued his industry provides a solution to the problem. "I think you've got both natural and man-made causes of. So yeah, I think man-made activity does contribute to that," Marty Durbin, the head of America's Natural Gas Alliance, told the Washington Examiner in an interview at his group's Washington headquarters. "But again, here's the best opportunity we have because we don't have to...
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Arkansas Best Corp. to become ArcBest, stock ticker symbol to change
2014-05-01 01:49:29| Trucking - Topix.net
Christmas may come early to select signage and print companies with Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp. announcing Wednesday that as of May 1 the transportation holding company will rename and rebrand to ArcBest Corporation.
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