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Low on Natural Gas, More Cities in China Will Face Choking Air Pollution
2013-10-30 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In a push to curb air pollution, China has been urging its cities to rely more heavily on natural gas and less on coal. But a shortage of natural gas is threatening that goal, as urban populations boom and domestic gas production lags, Reuters reports. Chinese officials have said that to reduce air pollution the most densely populated parts of Beijing should use only gas heat, which limits the supply of natural gas for smaller cities and forces those cities to rely on coal. Pollution levels in Chinese...
Major coastal cities face billions in flood losses
2013-10-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Aljazeera: Flood protections are easily misunderstood: A 100-year flood is not one that occurs once every 100 years, but instead one that has a 1 percent chance of occurring in a single year. Most U.S. cities have protections for 100-year flood events but some, like Houston, are only prepared for a 50-year flood. But as seas rise and more intense weather events become more frequent, floods are expected to become more destructive. According to a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Climate...
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Sprint adds 45 cities to LTE network list
2013-10-30 01:43:45| IT Services - Topix.net
Sprint Corp. said Tuesday that it had flipped the switch, adding 4G LTE service to 45 additional markets.
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5 cities doing big things to reduce their risks from extreme weather: Report
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: From this September's historic Colorado floods to the upcoming anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, there's been no shortage of extreme weather events over the past year that show why the world's major cities need to become more resilient in the face of climate change. The Center for American Progress released a report this week on the cities across America that are doing just that, highlighting the steps five major cities are taking after experiencing major natural disasters in the recent past, and...
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25 most sleep-deprived cities
2013-10-25 10:38:09| Biotech - Topix.net
As part of the Great American Pillow Toss sleep education campaign, Carpenter Co.
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