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Ocean temperatures give early warning of Indian malaria

2013-03-03 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Researchers have developed a model that allows malaria epidemics in arid northwest India to be predicted four months in advance, helping authorities prepare for them much earlier than before. The seasonal malaria outbreaks in the region are known to be driven by higher rainfall, which allows the mosquitoes that transmit the disease to breed, and can currently be forecasted up to around a month in advance. But a study published today (3 March) in Nature Climate Change has found a strong association...

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Improving Early Warning Systems for Predicting Cyclones

2013-01-31 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Comprehensive Weather Monitoring Using a dataTaker DT80 CHESTERLAND OH - The extensive mining and port facilities situated in remote tropical northwest Australia means that it is essential that the most accurate weather data indicating cyclone formations is available to these vulnerable businesses. Therefore it's necessary for local facilities to regularly augment the governmental meteorological weather reports they rely on. Recently the management of a shipping company wanted their own ...This story is related to the following:ServicesData Logging Recorders | Weather Station Equipment | Remote Reporting Monitoring Systems

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An Early Nuclear Warning: Was It for Naught?

2013-01-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The accident at Japans Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011 alerted the American nuclear industry and its regulators to the possibility that operators at plants with more than one reactor might have to deal with more than one meltdown at a time in a flood, earthquake or other catastrophe. Officials are now working to assure that they could master that situation. But documents uncovered by a group that is critical of nuclear safety show that a high-level safety analyst at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

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