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Record heat puts Australia at risk of intense fire season
2015-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A fire that raged this week across hundreds of thousands of acres of grasslands and about-to-be harvested wheat crops, killing a farmer and three workers, points to a dangerous summer ahead in Australia, scientists and weather watchers say. The fire, in the south of Western Australia, began last weekend after lightning struck about 12 miles north of the township of Esperance. It was flaring six days later after burning through 580 square miles of farmland, fanned by temperatures above 100 degrees...
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Honda has the most high risk models in Takata air bag recall
2015-11-18 15:57:37| Automakers - Topix.net
Cars and trucks from the 2008 model year or older that were originally sold or registered in high humidity areas along the U.S. Gulf Coast are getting top priority for repairs as the government commences the massive Takata air bag inflator recall. Honda Motor Co.
$135 Billion Export Trade in Forest Risk Commodities Continues to Destroy Rainforests
2015-11-18 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Global Canopy Programmes Forest 500, the worlds first rainforest ratings agency that analyses the most influential companies, investors and governments in the race towards a deforestation-free global economy, today launched its annual results. It revealed that while the corporate sector improved marginally overall, many laggards are yet to make public sustainability commitments. Commercial agriculture drives at least two thirds of tropical deforestation yet only 8% of all the 250 powerbroker...
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Severe winter weather guidance published by BIFM to support FM professionals with business risk and continuity
2015-11-18 11:00:00| BIFM News
BIFM have launched a Good Practice Guide to Winter Maintenance.
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Water supply for 2 billion people at risk as snowpack declines across northern hemisphere
2015-11-18 07:06:11| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Snowfields once considered permanent are shrinking from the Rocky Mountains to the Himalayas. Nearly 100 drainage basins across the northern hemisphere that currently supply water to 2 billion people in the American West, southern Europe, the Mideast and central Asia are at considerable risk over the next century. Dwindling water supplies will not be a universal impact of declining snowpacks due to climate change, however. Scientists have observed declining snowpack accumulation across the...
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