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Apple's Switch to Squirt Gun Emoji Triggers Flood of Emotions
2016-08-04 01:21:51| TechNewsWorld
Apple earlier this week announced its decision to change the gun emoji in iOS 10, to be released this fall. It plans to substitute an image of a green-and-orange squirt gun for the existing image of a black pistol. The new version of the gun is one of more than 100 new and redesigned emoji characters. The change appears to be a reflection of Apple's stance against gun violence.
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Marylands flash flood is a sign of what the future has in store
2016-08-02 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The streets of Ellicott City, Maryland, became raging rivers on Saturday, with cars tossed around like toy boats after nearly six inches of rain fell in just two hours. Rainfall that intense is a 1-in-1,000 year event for the area, according to the National Weather Service. While downpours that intense are rare, heavy rainfall events have been on the rise in the region and nationwide thanks to the warming of Earths atmosphere caused by accumulating greenhouse gases. That trend is expected to...
Heavy rains flood Baltimore suburb, homes damaged
2016-07-31 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy rains caused waist-deep flooding on Saturday night in a suburb of Baltimore, damaging homes and businesses and pushing cars through the streets, an official said. The flooding in Ellicott City, Maryland, was the worst seen in the community since 2011, Denise Weist, a spokeswoman for the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services, said by phone. There were no reports of any deaths or injuries from the flooding, which also affected some areas just outside of Ellicott City, Weist said....
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China: Green infrastructure minimizes flood risk
2016-07-22 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ECNS: Recent storms in China affecting especially cities along the Yangtze River and even in the northern part of the country show current water engineering approaches are not offering enough protection from flooding disasters. It is both the failure of local flood defense systems and the lack of effective river-basin-wide management that amplify flood disasters. Indeed, around the world, people have started realizing that cities need to reinvent themselves if they are to become resilient to the effects...
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Don't block Obama's flood rule
2016-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Major flooding has become an increasingly critical problem across the United States due to urbanization and rising sea levels. Such flooding is now involved in 90 percent of all natural disasters in the U.S., with average damages nearly doubling over the past two decades to more than $10 billion per year in the 2000s. President Barack Obama took steps to address this matter head-on by issuing an executive order last year that would require federally owned or funded buildings and infrastructure...
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