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Italy: First test of Venice's 5.4 billion euro flood barriers
2013-10-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Flood-prone Venice on Saturday carried out the first test of its 5.4 billion euro ($7.3 billion) barrier system known as "Moses", designed to protect the Renaissance city from rising sea levels. The ambitious engineering project involves installing 78 mobile barriers divided into four sections at the three inlets to the Venice lagoon, with the largest inlet divided in half by an artificial island. Fifty companies have been involved in the massive project overseen by the Venezia Nuova consortium,...
After the flood: climate change blamed for Himalayan tragedy
2013-10-13 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Before the flood, says Chandan Singh Rawat, who runs a ramshackle tea house perched above the mountain torrent of the upper Ganges, business was great. We didnt even have time to talk to people. But four months after flash floods swept down the Himalayan valleys of the Ganges tributaries in India, killing nearly 6,000 people and sweeping away roads and bridges, locals such as Mr Rawat have time on their hands and little source of income. We live from day to day, he says. Every year, tens...
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County staff takes on flood insurance issue
2013-10-09 08:43:02| Real Estate - Topix.net
As local property owners and the real estate market struggle to cope with the backlash of federal flood insurance reform, Pinellas County staff is working on ways to help reduce the pain of rising rates.
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Next front to fight flood insurance rate hikes: lawsuits
2013-10-09 02:38:44| Real Estate - Topix.net
Nobody told Rangel Dockery that flood insurance premiums for the Seminole home she bought in June would skyrocket from $1,900 to nearly $14,000.
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Flood Forensics: Why Colorado's Floods Were So Destructive
2013-10-08 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Parts of Colorado are still drying out after floods hit the state last month. Eight people died, and damage from the worst flooding in decades is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Scientists are now venturing into the hardest-hit areas to do a sort of "flood forensics" to understand why the floods were so bad. Geologist Jonathan Godt takes Peak Highway in northern Colorado up into the Rockies. The road there winds past ravines and streams where water is still rushing. Front-end loaders are...
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