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North Carolina Emerged From a 1999 Flood Disaster With An Overhauled Risk Assessment System
2013-06-07 17:06:58| ENR.com: Headline News
Hurricane Floyd left more than a vast landscape of flooded fields and towns in North Carolina in 1999. It left a determination to get to the bottom of flood risk assessment and not be caught by surprise again.
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UK: Clothing makers "boosted by Bangladesh disaster"
2013-06-05 13:50:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
An upsurge in UK-based apparel manufacturing during May was partly caused by the knock-on effects of clothing factory disasters in Bangladesh, it has been reported.
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Fukushima's lessons from nuclear disaster
2013-06-05 01:08:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How do you re-build schools after the Fukushima disaster?
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Consumerism driving us to disaster
2013-05-28 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: IMAGINE youre at the wheel of a car and you are careering towards a cliff edge, foot hard down on the accelerator. You dont know where the cliff is because you are blindfolded. The stuff of nightmares? Its an analogy for our collective plight here on planet Earth in the early 21st century. The car driver is humanity speeding recklessly into the unknown; the cliff represents the descent into chaos and turmoil when climate change spins out of control. The fact that concentrations of carbon dioxide...
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Oklahoma disaster tests Dems' ability to mix climate science with emotional appeals
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: President George W. Bush is said to have quipped while in office that "I don't do nuance" -- a trait that today's hyperpartisan Washington, D.C., often appears to share. Democrats faced the challenge of communicating scientific nuance head-on this week when a devastating Oklahoma tornado raised the question of how to link climate change to extreme weather events, given the already thorny politics of disaster aid. The trouble began Monday as a fatal, milewide tornado descended on Moore, Okla.,...
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