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Vard Marine Design Selected for US Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter
2016-09-20 14:07:00| Naval Technology
Mainboard-listed Vard Holdings announced yesterday that a design developed by its subsidiary, Vard Marine, has been selected for the US Coast Guard's new offshore patrol cutter (OPC) programme.
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Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast
2016-09-05 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Batten down the hatches. Typhoons pummelling the coastlines of east and South-East Asia have become more destructive in the past 40 years, and are likely to intensify further because of climate change. The region has recently suffered some of the world's most devastating typhoons, including Haiyan, which killed 6340 people in 2013, and Morakot which killed 789 in 2009, both in the Philippines. A new study reveals that, on average, typhoons hitting the region have increased in intensity by 14...
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Flooding of coast, caused by global warming, has already begun
2016-09-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through. Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times a year, cutting the town off from the mainland. And another 500 miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is forcing the city to spend millions fixing battered roads and...
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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought
2016-09-04 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Today: nce a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast`s top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mines buried deep in the plantations. "It hasn`t rained for more than five years and cocoa`s no longer worth anything," said Yao, sporting a cowboy hat. Ivory Coast is the world`s leading cocoa exporter but it is the prospect of striking gold that is luring diggers from neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. They come to seek their...
Hermine regroups as it lumbers up East Coast
2016-09-04 06:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The once-and-future Hurricane Hermine regained strength Saturday as it moved slowly up the Eastern Seaboard and made a mess of the holiday weekend. Hermine already caused two deaths, damaged properties and left hundreds of thousands without electricity from Florida to Virginia. It spawned a tornado in North Carolina and closed beaches as far north as New York. "This is not a beach weekend for anyone in the Mid-Atlantic to the northeast,' said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the National...
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