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Blizzard of 2013 Brings Another Threat: Coastal Flooding
2013-02-08 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: While the blizzard bearing down on New England has understandbly brought national attention to what could be record snowfall, the storm brings another dangerous threat to the region: coastal flooding. The blizzard of 2013 may cause major coastal flooding along the Massachusetts coastline from a storm surge as high as 5 feet and waves greater than 30 feet tall. The storm also arrives just days after a report warned of the region's growing vulnerability to such storm-surge events. The report, by...
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VIDEO: Australia counts flooding costs
2013-02-05 06:26:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
As Australia sweeps up after devastating floods, some estimates suggest the clean-up and repair bill may be more than 2.4bn Australia dollars ($2.5bn; 1.6bn).
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United Kingdom: We must be prepared for the flooding caused by a 'new kind of rain,' says Lord Smith
2013-02-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: "We are much safer than we were, but there is a constant need to upgrade and improve the defences,' he says. "With more extreme weather patterns happening now and the prospect of the sea level rising over the next 50 years or so, we have to become even more vigilant.' Lord Smith is in a café in Canvey Island, Essex, on the sea wall built after the terrible events of January 31, 1953. Waves from the North Sea, overcome barriers along the coast, flooding homes suddenly in winter darkness. "This...
United Kingdom: MPs call for urgent action to reduce flooding
2013-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The government needs to take urgent action to reduce the impact of flooding, MPs have said. Ministers had been "too slow" in pushing through changes to improve protection, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said. But it welcomed government plans for more competition in the water sector, in its report on the draft Water Bill. The government said the proposed legislation would build resilience into the UK's water infrastructure. However, Labour said the plans were "ideologically...
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Fresh flooding hits northern Mozambique
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: At least 17,000 more people have fled fresh floods in Mozambique as heavy rains pounded the central and northern parts of the country, killing seven and taking the death toll to 55, media reported on Wednesday. The spokeswoman for Mozambique National Disaster Management Institute, Rita Almeida, told state television that 15,415 people had been displaced in the central town of Zambezia and 1,830 in Nampula in the north. Four people died in Nampula when their house collapsed, while another three...
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