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Rim fire's effects likely to last for decades to come
2013-09-23 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Tourists stopped at the Rim of the World overlook on California 120 earlier this month to take photos of the panoramic view just as they always have. But they stared in silence at the ashen hues of a landscape swept by the largest wildfire to burn in the Sierra Nevada in more than a century of recordkeeping. Steep canyon walls and mountain slopes that had been robed in chaparral and oak were now draped in black, spreading to the horizon in a funereal scene. To the north, miles and miles of...
Arctic on course for ice-free summer 'within decades', scientists say
2013-09-20 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Arctic is on course for an ice-free summer within the next few decades, as scientist on Friday declared that sea ice in the region had fallen to one of the lowest annual minimums on record. On 13 September, the expanse of frozen water in the Arctic fell to 5.10 million square kilometres (1.97 million square miles), the sixth-lowest such measurement on record, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said in a statement. The annual minimum was not as extreme as the collapse of sea ice...
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Mexico floods cause worst storm damage in decades
2013-09-18 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Mexico has suffered some of the worst storm damage in decades after it was hit by both tropical storm 'Manuel', and the hurricane 'Ingrid', and more than 50 people have been killed across the country
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Train safety move delayed decades
2013-09-10 08:10:22| Railroads - Topix.net
It was an accident investigators say didn't have to happen: Five years ago a commuter train collided head-on with a freight train near Los Angeles, killing 25 and injuring more than 100.
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Influence Game: Train safety move delayed decades
2013-09-03 11:15:08| Railroads - Topix.net
Despite a rash of deadly train crashes, the railroad industry's allies in Congress are trying to push back the deadline for installing technology to prevent the most catastrophic types of collisions until at least 2020, half a century after accident investigators first called for such safety measures.
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