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Mega-disasters and urbanization spur spike in displacement: Report

2015-03-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The number of people forced from their homes each year by disasters has quadrupled over the past four decades, and the risk of being displaced has doubled, said a Norwegian humanitarian group. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, called on governments meeting in Sendai, Japan, later this week to tackle displacement as part of a new global plan to reduce disaster risk worldwide. The plan's predecessor, the Hyogo Framework for Action, did...

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K&N Marketing Campaign to Premier with Spike TV Documentary I Am Dale Earnhardt

2015-03-02 22:15:21| K&N Engineering, Inc. Corporate News

K&N partnered with creative agency BPN to create an integrated marketing campaign, nicknamed Pedal Down, to highlight the emotional benefits of increased acceleration and horsepower.

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Gas price spike a week after Torrance refinery explosion takes even...

2015-02-27 11:10:18| Energy - Topix.net

The explosion at the ExxonMobil refinery is only partly to blame for a surge in gasoline prices that even stunned one gas station operator Thursday. Frank Scotto, Torrance's former mayor, said he was forced to pass along a 24-cent overnight increase in pump prices at his Chevron and Mobil stations.

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