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VIDEO: Waves of tourists desert Lebanon
2013-07-21 11:38:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The tourism industry is a key driver for Lebanon's economy, but visitor numbers have plunged because of the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
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Nighttime Heat Waves in Pacific Northwest Quadruple over Last 30 Years
2013-07-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The heat is turning up in the Pacific Northwest. Washington and Oregon have been documented undergoing a marked rise in nighttime heat waves. Nighttime heat waves -- defined by a three-day period where the daily low temperature is in the top one percent of highest temperatures recorded -- have more than quadrupled in the last 30 years, according to researchers at the University of Washington. According to the researchers, the region west of the Cascades saw only three nighttime heat waves between...
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Are the East Coast heat waves related to global warming?
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: The heat wave gripping much of the East Coast and Midwest has people wondering: Could this scorching weather have any link to global warming? Experts say it's hard to connect any single event with long-term trends. Still, heat waves "are expected to happen more often in the future," said Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center. "As the average temperature increases, these types of events become more frequent." The current heat wave is somewhat unusual in that it is...
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Hotter Nights in Northwest as Heat Waves Rise in the Region
2013-07-20 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: In Western Oregon and Washington, the number of heat waves at night is rising, a new study found. Researchers said that people living in these regions must consider buying a fan or an air conditioner as temperatures might soar in the last week of July. Night-time heat waves occur when the low temperature of the day falls within one percent of the record temperature for at least three consecutive nights. In July 2009, a heat wave in Seattle broke temperature records dating back to 1891. This...
Summertime Toy Ready to Hit the Waves
2013-07-15 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Swash Board is a circular disk with handles on each side and a rope handle that children can use to play in the ocean. Sigma created the first working prototype.<br /> <br /> O'Shaughnessy came up with the idea after he watched his kids sit on their boogie boards along the sand and wait for waves to ride up along the shore. "Once the waves came up along the shore the kids would be moved around by the water. We thought it would be better if the device they were sitting on was round then they ...This story is related to the following:Non-Industrial ProductsSearch for suppliers of: Toys
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