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West Virginia Asks Feds to Study Possible Health Effects of Chemical Spill
2014-02-21 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Is it really safe? West Virginia's governor is asking federal authorities to do further study on the possible health effects caused by last month's chemical spill near Charleston. "It is critical this study is funded and that work begins immediately," wrote Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin in a letter Tuesday to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On January 9, the chemical -- 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or MCHM -- was discovered leaking from a storage tank...
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More sinkholes will open up across Britain as the effects of flooding continue
2014-02-19 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A spate of sinkholes have opened up across the country as floodwater dissolves the underlying rock, while a second wave is likely to appear in the coming weeks as the rain stops and the ground begins to dry, the British Geological Survey warned yesterday. The number of sinkholes reported has soared to six so far this month many times more than the one to two that is typical across the whole of a normal year, experts said. These have generally occurred as soluble rocks such as chalk, limestone...
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New Maps Pinpointing Wind Turbines Will Help Track Effects on Wildlife
2014-02-17 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: USGS Locations of wind turbines in the U.S. More than 47,000 wind turbines dot the U.S. landscape, predominantly clustered in the Midwest and Great Plains, as a new interactive tool developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows. The maps -- the first publicly-available, nationwide data set for wind energy generation -- show the locations of every turbine in the U.S., from large wind farms to single turbines, and are accurate to within 10 meters. The maps are part of the USGS's effort to assess...
UK weather: The effects of the floods by numbers
2014-02-14 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The numbers below tell a story of extreme weather since the turn of the year, the wind and rain bringing much of England's south and South West to its knees: 23 -- the number of days it rained in January. 45 -- the number of years since the UK saw a December this windy, according the Met Office. 60 -- the number of years since the River Thames was this high. 78.8 -- the millimetres of rainfall recorded by MeteoGroup in the south east of England during the first 12 days of February, 380%...
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University academics argue for further exploration of oil spills effects
2014-02-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
A new report has unveiled that in order to look into the short and long-term impact of the oil and gas industry on EU fisheries, fish species and the ecosystem, further exploration needs to be done.
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