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Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
2013-09-27 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of the night, but it was still flowing about 100 times bigger than it usually does in September. A huge tree raged along in the floodwaters, smacked up against the bridge with a cracking sound, and then disappeared under the bridge. Spectators oohed and aaheda couple dozen of us were watching,...
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weather
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colorado
Reaching Zero: The Realities of Ecologically-Friendly Engineering on a Continental Scale
2013-08-21 13:38:14| ENR.com: Headline News
How do you build a network to study environmental change, without introducing change?
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engineering
continental
reaching
The Digital Realities Of Work Life Blending
2013-07-08 03:39:42| Wireless - Topix.net
I've been in Maine for the past week on a so-called digital vacation. Yes, the craggy coastline, salt air and lobster rolls are great, but as for "getting away from it all", it just ain't happening as I imagined it could.
Tags: work
life
digital
realities
PHOTO: Railway realities
2013-02-14 07:54:34| Railroads - Topix.net
White Rock Museum and Archives staffer Elsa Wong contemplates some of the artifacts from the travelling exhibit Chinese Legacies: Building the Canadian Pacific Railway.
5 Sobering Realities about Global Water Security
2013-01-30 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Some people say that water is the oil of the 21st Century. If only water were that simple. Water is very complicated. Its affected by large-scale issues like climate change and globalization. International commerce moves virtual water (the water it takes to grow or produce a product) from farms in Brazil to grocery stores in China and Egypt. But water is also inherently local, impacted by site-specific weather, geography, and other environmental and land use conditions. Managing and using...
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water
global
realities