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Loss of snowpack and glaciers in Rockies poses water threat
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: When Rocky Mountain explorer Walter Wilcox hiked up to Bow Summit in Canadas Banff National Park in 1896, he took a photo of a turquoise lake that later caught the eye of a National Geographic magazine editor. In the photo, which was eventually published, the glacier feeding the lake was just a mile upstream. Since then, the snout of Peyto Glacier has receded more than three miles from the broad valley it carved out thousands of years ago. Remnants of ancient tree trunks the glacier bulldozed...
Safe Coast Virginia: Report outlines the climate change threat
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Press: That's the nut of the latest report on the impact of climate change on Hampton Roads released Wednesday by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. "Safe Coast Virginia: Climate Change Threats and Practical Solutions for Coastal Virginia" contains no big surprises, but CCAN director Mike Tidwell said it is the first to aggregate the latest science, tell the stories of real people experiencing climate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising...
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Climate Change Is Threat to National Security
2014-07-08 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Global warming is real, and we're starting to feel the physical effects now. It's difficult to pin any one event on a warming world; it's like playing craps with a pair of loaded die. That 12 you rolled may have been random, or it may have been because the dice are very slightly weighted. You have to throw a lot of rolls before the effects are seen with any certainty. But these physical effects on our planet are just the start. Droughts, fires, more extreme weather, sea level rise, ocean acidification...
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This Major Threat to Caesars and Boyd Won't Hurt Las Vegas Sands
2014-07-04 16:48:30| Trucking - Topix.net
Las Vegas casinos made $37.34 billion in revenue in 2012, just under the $37.52 billion they made in 2007, Las Vegas' peak year before the crash.
Homemovers 'open to ID theft threat'
2014-07-03 14:27:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Many people moving home are putting themselves at risk of ID fraud by failing to tell their financial service providers their new address, according to Royal Mail.
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