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OPB: Feds Kick In Money For Oregon Disaster Recovery
2016-06-21 16:51:41| PortlandOnline
News story posted to OPB.org June 20, 2016.
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Sri Lanka's investment in disaster risk insurance gives fast payoff
2016-06-13 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On April 1, the Sri Lankan government paid 300 million rupees ($2 million) as a premium to buy its first national natural disaster cover from the country's National Insurance Trust Fund. Just six weeks later, as drenching rains swamped the country and a major landslide ripped through Aranayake region, in Kegalle District, the government made its first insurance claim, for nearly a million dollars, to provide meals and other immediate assistance to over 300,000 people hit by the disaster. Soon...
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Why its wrong to label the Kyoto Protocol a disaster
2016-06-10 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: All 36 countries with emission caps under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change met their commitments, according to a study published on Friday. The analysis -- Compliance of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in the first commitment period by Igor Shishlov, Romain Morel and Valentin Bellassen -- is published in the Climate Policy journal of the Taylor & Francis Group. Indeed, final data for national greenhouse gas emissions and exchanges in carbon credits (which only became available at the end...
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EgyptAir disaster
2016-06-09 02:08:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Accident investigators are to search the site where Egypt Air flight MS804 crashed into the Mediterranean. They face a tough task, says Richard Westcott.
Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster
2016-06-08 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: Disasters can be cleaned up. Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, finally publicly officially announced that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing (Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuels is Missing, Epoch Times, May 24, 2016). Now what? According to Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: Nobody really knows where...
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