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Extreme weather to hit community sector
2013-04-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: COMMUNITY organisations are not well prepared to deal with the impact of climate change and extreme weather, new research reveals. The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) has commissioned research finding small and medium-sized organisations are at risk of permanent closure as a result of major damage to physical infrastructure caused by events like heatwaves, drought, bushfires and floods. "To date the community sector has been overlooked in the climate change adaptation policy settings,"...
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Extreme Networks Targets Enterprise With Open Fabric Solution
2013-04-10 11:45:53| Wireless - Topix.net
Extreme Networks is taking its data center-focused Open Fabric solution into the enterprise with the launch of Open Fabric Edge, a new network architecture Extreme says can help IT more efficiently manage campus networks, especially those supporting an influx of mobile devices and virtualized environments.
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A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, research shows
2013-04-09 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC), NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the Desert Research Institute, University...
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Remote-Mount Digital Valve Controller Handles Extreme Temperatures
2013-04-08 06:00:00| Chemical Processing
Emersons Fisher Fieldvue DVC6205 remote-mount digital valve controller handles applications in which accessibility, extreme temperatures (up to 120°C / 250°F), extreme vibration or confined space make integral mounting difficult or impractical.
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Extreme weather boosts poverty in Sri Lanka - report
2013-04-08 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Without fail, Somadasa Gamage has prayed for one thing every year before he plants his crops. "Rain,' says the 47-year-old vegetable farmer, who has farmed for three and a half decades in Sri Lanka's remote south eastern Tanamalvilla area, a dry area where rain can be frustratingly scarce. Last year, for almost six months, Gamage did not plant any crops because a severe drought had dried out the river from which he draws water. When the drought ended, Gamage was relieved -- but not for long....
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