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Climate Change: More Disasters Needed to Motivate Individual Behavior Change?
2014-09-26 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Over 310,000 people marched last Sunday to call for action on climate change. The People's Climate March aimed to press policymakers that would meet two days later at the UN Climate Summit, a preparation for the next Conference of the Parties (COP). Hundreds of thousands showing that despite of political slow action, awareness on climate change has increased in the last years, together with the feeling that it is the biggest crisis of our century. Climate change has increasingly influenced development...
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Natural disasters displaced more people than war in 2013, study finds
2014-09-17 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Natural disasters displaced three times as many people as war last year even as 2013 was a horrific year for conflict with 22 million people driven out of their homes by floods, hurricanes and other hazards, a new study has found. Twice as many people now lose their homes to disaster as in the 1970s, and more people move into harms way each year, the study by the Norwegian Refugee Council found. Basically, the combination of mega natural disasters and hundreds of smaller natural disasters...
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Pakistan-India monsoon floods: Averting future disasters
2014-09-13 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: After yet another devastating flood, experts say that what Pakistan and India need to do is build more dams and reservoirs. It makes these annual disasters all the more tragic that for most of the year both countries have little rain. Yet after leaving more than 450 dead and a swathe of destruction on both sides of the border, much of the water dumped on the Kashmir and Punjab regions in the past 10 days will now be wasted. Critics say both the Indian and Pakistani governments have repeatedly...
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Crude calamities - the biggest offshore oil spill disasters
2014-09-11 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil rig or oil tanker accidents are behind the worst offshore oil spills in history, including the tragic Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. Offshore-technology.com profiles the worlds biggest oil spill disasters based on the volume of oil released
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NET volunteers work with Portland Fire & Rescue to be ready for disasters
2014-09-01 04:03:36| PortlandOnline
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