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Despite bad weather, Twin Cities home prices rise
2014-03-26 08:28:39| Real Estate - Topix.net
Harsh weather hadn't helped sell Marcy Wengler's listing near Grand Avenue in St. Paul last month.
Texas cities, including Galveston, worried about flood insurance hikes
2014-03-24 21:22:09| Real Estate - Topix.net
Zoila Navarro's bakery in Galveston has persevered through tough times. It reopened after being flooded by Hurricane Ike in 2008, and stayed open after her husband was killed during a robbery last year.
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Texas cities worried about flood insurance hikes
2014-03-24 10:43:12| Real Estate - Topix.net
Business owners, real estate agents and officials in Galveston and other Texas cities worry that changes to the nation's flood insurance program could shutter businesses and stifle home sales.
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Welcome to the dead zone: Our planets greatest cities are facing major pollution crisis
2014-03-23 06:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Last week, Paris and Beijing had one of those feuds that city-watchers love so much. (Such head-to-head battles, like great inter-urban sporting events, fuel the illusion that cities are singular, indivisible, cultural entities.) In this case, it was a race to the bottom: Observers noticed, during the five-day air quality crisis in Paris last week, that there was more particulate matter in the Parisian atmosphere than in Beijing. This was true, for a moment, but the comparison soon backfired on...
Indonesia's forest fires feed 'brown cloud' of pollution choking Asia's cities
2014-03-22 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: High above the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests. They look harmless as the monsoon winds sweep them north and east towards Singapore, Malaysia and deep into Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. But at ground level, south-east Asian cities have been choking for weeks, wreathed in an acrid, stinking blanket of half-burned vegetation mixed with industrial pollution, car exhaust fumes and ash. From Palangkarya...
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