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Sea level rise a disaster many decades in the making
2013-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Adelaide Now: THE plight of the River Murray has shown how environmental disaster can be allowed to sneak up on us despite ample warning, and opportunity for those charged with planning the future, to take preventative action. A prolonged drought threatened to be the straw that broke the river system's back, but the cause of the potential disaster was 100 years of over-extraction of water for human use. Fortunately for the river system and all those who rely on it, at a minute to midnight governments were...
Wildfires across Australia and the US's hottest year on record: the heat that's making history
2013-01-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Confused? You have every right to be. On just one day this week, it was reported that the heatwave that has lit wildfires across Australia is so unprecedented that two new colours have had to be added to weather forecasting maps; that 2012 had been by far the hottest year on record in the United States; that the blue-chip World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the world's most urgent dangers; and that, nevertheless, the Met Office had concluded that global warming had stalled....
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LBSzone Social Location Report - CES, Nokia, SuperGeo, TomTom making news
2013-01-10 19:36:54| Location-Based Services (LBS) Zone
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How urban heat islands are making India hotter
2013-01-09 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is bitterly cold in Delhi. A bone-chilling wind has left temperatures below 3C (37F), the lowest since records began in 1969, and at least 100 homeless people are said to have died. But temperatures in the mega-city that is now home to an estimated 18 million people can be expected to rise to a sizzling 46C if there is a heatwave in May, and the city is often unbearably hot by the time the monsoon arrives at the end of June. Now, Indian government-backed research shows that both Delhi and...
Making the Most of a Memorial
2013-01-07 17:13:00| Waste Age
Honoring the victims of the 2011 mass shooting in Tuscon, Ariz., by recycling their memorial. The Heap read more
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