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Calgary floods spotlight cities' costly failure to plan for climate change
2013-06-28 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: But a community's ability to react during a disaster is one thing. Minimizing the impact of a flood is another. Now, the province faces a potentially decade-long cleanup effort that could cost $5 billion by BMO Nesbitt Burns estimates. Disaster risk management experts say the Alberta situation should serve as a wake-up call to municipalities across the country of the need to spend money and time mitigating the risks before disaster strikes, especially as climate change is predicted to bring bigger...
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AK Steel blast furnace failure may cost millions
2013-06-28 05:37:47| Steel - Topix.net
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Failure Becomes an Option for Infrastructure Engineers Facing Climate Change
2013-06-28 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Civil engineers build rugged things designed to last for decades, like roads, bridges, culverts and water treatment plants. But a University of New Hampshire professor wants his profession to become much more flexible. In a changing climate, civil engineer Paul Kirshen argues, facilities will have to adapt to changing conditions over their useful lives and, in some instances, be allowed to fail. A leading example of this approach: The Netherlands' Room for the River project: Decades of thinking...
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06.26.13 -- Fracking Failure: EPA Acknowledges Pavillion Study Deficiencies
2013-06-25 02:46:31| oilandgasonline News Articles
06/26/13Oil and Gas Online Newsletter
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Our Overcrowded Planet: Failure of Family Planning
2013-06-24 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Until just a couple weeks ago, the great global food challenge was how to feed 9 billion people in 2050. But no longer -- the number of mid-century mouths just jumped. Now its projected to be 9.6 billion, closing in on double-digit billions. And forget about expectations that world population will stabilize this century: By 2100, according to the latest projections, the number of people on the planet will hit 10.9 billion -- and will still be growing by 10 million a year. These hundreds of millions...
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