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Arctic melt damage bill put at $65 trillion
2013-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Arctic permafrost melts. Methane frozen on the sea bed for thousands of years is starting to bubble to the surface as ice thaws. Photo: Unboxed Media The thawing of permafrost in one region of the Arctic will cause damage worth $65 trillion, or 80 per cent of the entire global economy last year, new research suggests. The oceans have been slowly warming in recent decades and methane frozen on the sea bed for thousands of years is starting to bubble to the surface in plumes. These ''methane pulses''...
Trapped in the oven of an extended heat wave, England calculates the damage
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In the Great Fire of 1666, a fire that began in a bakery and rapidly tore through a city of wooden buildings in overpopulated slums with open sewers flowing in the streets, it was easy to count the casualties: Four noblemen died. As for the 30,000 people who lived in the tenements that burned, no one kept track. The eventual solution was memorialized in "London's Burning," a song of the day: "Pour on water, more water!" Figuring out a solution and calculating the death toll from the near-record...
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Common Ground Alliance Launches Utility Damage Prevention Database Online
2013-07-23 21:14:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Searchable web-based tool puts information about damage prevention products at stakeholders fingertips read more
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BBC: China earthquake - video shows rescue effort and damage
2013-07-23 16:52:26| PortlandOnline
Video footage of the aftermath of two recent earthquakes in the Gansu province of China posted on www.bbc.co.uk July 23, 2013.
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FEMA tours $3 million in flood damage in Grant Co.
2013-07-17 07:54:01| IT Services - Topix.net
Grant County emergency officials continue to assess the damage left behind after heavy rains and storms in late June swept away some of the county's infrastructure.
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