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Cities With The Best And Worst Drivers
2014-08-30 00:34:05| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Statistics suggest some areas of the U.S. inherently breed more cautious drivers, while others tend to spawn some of the most accident-prone motor-vehicle operators on the road. If auto safety is your number one vehicular priority, move to Ft. Collins, CO, which boasts the safest drivers in the nation according to the annual Americas Best Drivers Report conducted by Allstate Insurance Co. READ MORE to find out the 10 best and the 10 worst. The Article Cities With The Best And Worst Drivers appeared first on Automotive Digest.
UPDATE 1-China Unicom, Telecom expand 4G network trials to 40 Chinese cities
2014-08-28 16:37:32| Telecom - Topix.net
China Unicom and China Telecom, the country's No.2 and No.3 mobile carriers, have received government approval to test their 4G high-speed networks in a total of 40 cities, up from 16 previously, they said on Thursday.
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"Heat Islands" Cook U.S. Cities Faster Than Ever
2014-08-22 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Cities are almost always hotter than the surrounding rural area but global warming takes that heat and makes it worse. In the future, this combination of urbanization and climate change could raise urban temperatures to levels that threaten human health, strain energy resources, and compromise economic productivity. Summers in the U.S. have been warming since 1970. But on average across the country cities are even hotter, and have been getting hotter faster than adjacent rural areas. With more...
A Tale of Two Cities: Miami, New York and Life on the Edge
2014-08-22 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Walking along the waterfront in Fort Lauderdale and admiring the 60-foot yachts docked alongside impressive homes, it's hard to imagine that this city could suffer the same financial fate as Detroit. But it is almost as hard to imagine how they will avoid a similar crisis given the sea level rise predicted by scientists. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, with 5.6 million people, is "ground zero' in the battle against the rising seas. Perhaps nowhere else in America are the odds lined up so heavily...
U.S. EPA makes strides in air toxics but work remains in cities: report
2014-08-21 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States has made progress in reducing dangerous air pollution since 1990 but work remains to reduce risks for the country's most overburdened urban areas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top official said on Thursday. The EPA released to Congress its second report on integrated air toxics, citing "substantial progress" toward reducing levels of contaminants such as arsenic, mercury and lead since it launched an Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy in 1999. Air toxics, also...
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