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Oil and fracking chemicals spill into Colorados floodwaters
2013-09-16 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heavy rains returned to Colorado on Sunday and hampered rescue efforts after last week`s flash floods. The confirmed death toll has risen to seven, and hundreds are still unaccounted for. An estimated 1,500 homes are destroyed. Some 1,000 people in Larimer County, north of Boulder, were awaiting airlifts that never came on Sunday - they were called off because of the foul weather. The floods have also triggered other problems that have gotten a lot less media attention: Fracking infrastructure...
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Colorado floodwaters sweep away teenage girl; second victim in five days
2013-08-13 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A 17-year-old Colorado girl became the second fatality in five days in the Pikes Peak region when she was swept down a swollen creek after apparently taking shelter under a bridge from rain and pounding hail, police said on Tuesday. Rose Hammes had gone for a walk on Monday afternoon, and called her parents to say she was taking shelter under the bridge, Colorado Springs police said in a statement. When her parents could not reach the girl on her cell phone, they called police. Search and rescue...
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United Kingdom: Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots
2013-01-27 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Around the middle of last week, I noticed that something was missing from my life. Something I'd grown accustomed to, started to take for granted and found comforting as I leafed through the newspaper each morning. I'm talking, of course, about flooding. Flooding had become a constant in modern Britain. News of killings and currency collapses, of terrible things happening in the Middle East or Africa, of pointless and anodyne political speeches, of endless rape allegations against the dead were...
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