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Flooded Canadian towns in gas heartland declare state of emergency
2016-06-17 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Intense flooding has prompted two northern communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia to declare states of emergency, just a month after forest fires prompted evacuations in the region. The city of Dawson Creek, which sits atop the gas rich Montney formation, declared a state of emergency on Friday due to heavy rain that washed out bridges, flooded sewers and forced some 60 people from their homes, the mayor said. "It was a crazy, crazy couple of days," Mayor Dale Bumstead said,...
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KOIN: Emergency workers practice for The Big One
2016-06-09 17:39:45| PortlandOnline
News story posted to KOIN.com June 8, 2016.
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Non-linear climate emergency
2016-05-31 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hurriyet Daily News: If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, theres one word youll hear time and time again, and yet its hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is non-linear. Most people think of global warming as an incremental thing. It may be inexorable, but its also predictable. Alas, most people are wrong. The climate is a very complex system, and complex systems can change in non-linear ways. In other words, you cannot count on the average...
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Aggreko to provide power for Network Rail's emergency support services
2016-05-25 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Network Rail has contracted Aggreko to provide rental power for emergency support and planned maintenance across the UK.
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Peru Declares Emergency to Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines
2016-05-24 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Fight Mercury Pollution from Gold Mines Marcin Nowak/Wikimedia Fishing boats on the Madres de Dios River. Peru has declared a 60-day emergency in the Amazon due to widespread mercury pollution from the regions booming gold mining industry, the country's environment minister announced this week. Several studies have confirmed dangerously high levels of the neurotoxin in waterways, fish, and people living in the Madres de Dios region, near Peru's southeast border. Members of the Harakmbut indigenous...
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