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Five years after Tennessee coal-slurry disaster, EPA has produced no new rules
2013-12-26 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Five years ago, in the dead of night, a torrent of more than a million gallons of slurry broke free from its holding place at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Tennessee. The toxic stew of coal fly ash, which is produced when coal is burned, polluted waterways and 300 acres of land. The disaster triggered anger from residents and promises from the EPA to introduce new rules to prevent such accidents. The anger is still there. But the government promises appear to have been broken. The...
VIDEO: Rogers: Tapering will be 'disaster'
2013-12-24 12:27:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Influential investor Jim Rogers warns the US central bank's plan to taper economic stimulus will be an "unmitigated disaster".
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More than 4,000 evacuated from Gaza 'disaster area' floods
2013-12-14 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in northern Gaza in what the United Nations has called "a disaster area", officials said on Saturday. Flooding has been so severe that access to many homes is by rowing boat and water is reported to be two meters (more than six feet) high in some places. Many people have been trapped inside inundated homes by rising waters. The flooding is the result of four days of torrential rains. "Large swathes of northern Gaza are a...
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In a Warming Arctic, Oil Drilling Brings Disaster
2013-12-12 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Shell Oil recently announced plans to resume drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean this summer. The company suffered a string of failures when it tried to drill there last year -- from having its emergency equipment "crushed like a beer can" in tests to grounding its drill rig in a winter storm. But these fiascoes haven't stopped Shell. The company is determined to gamble with pristine ocean waters once again. Yet even as the oil giant draws up drilling plans, the Arctic continues to feel the...
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UN's 2C target will fail to avoid a climate disaster, scientists warn
2013-12-03 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The limit of 2C of global warming agreed by the world's governments is a "dangerous target", "foolhardy" and will not avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change, new research from a panel of eminent climate scientists warned on Tuesday. In a new paper, the climate scientist Professor James Hansen and a team of international experts found the most dangerous effects of a warming climate sea level rise, Arctic ice melt, extreme weather would begin kicking in with a global temperature...
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