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Simultaneous disasters batter Pacific Islands
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: High tides have surged over sea walls defending the capital of the Marshall Islands, adding to the crisis situation in this tiny Pacific nation, where a state of emergency was declared only last month because of a devastating drought in the scattered northern atolls. In the last week, what the islanders call "king tides' have repeatedly flooded parts of the capital, Majuro, and its airport, in one of the countries most vulnerable to sea level rise. Near to danger: houses on the Marshall Islands...
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Nigeria kickstarts efforts to head off climate disasters
2013-07-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alhaji Gimba Suleiman, a 72-year-old rice farmer from Ozahi in Nigeria's south-central Kogi State, lost his house in the huge floods that displaced 2 million people and affected a total of more than 7.7 million in the West African nation last year. He's still living in temporary accommodation 15 km away, going back each day to tend his crops, but is getting help from the Red Cross to rebuild his destroyed home. "I am sure of the quality of the house that has been built. It will be able to withstand...
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Mobile Press-Register 200th Anniversary: Amid disasters, economic...
2013-07-02 13:12:13| Paper - Topix.net
Editor's note: During the Press-Register's celebration of its 200th anniversary , the newspaper and AL.com have taken a decade-by-decade look at major events that shaped Mobile and Baldwin counties, the Gulf Coast and the nation during those years.
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Toyota starts traffic data service for businesses to help drivers in disasters
2013-05-30 03:10:18| Automakers - Topix.net
Toyota is using live-time traffic information from 700,000 Toyota vehicles on Japanese roads to offer what it calls a "big data" service to local governments and businesses that helps drivers during disasters.
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World must face up to climate-driven disasters: UN
2013-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The world needs to wake up to the risk of a spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. "We live in a time of huge natural disasters which are made worse by climate change," the UN's deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, told reporters at the start of a three-day conference on risk reduction in Geneva. "Natural disasters are not only becoming more frequent but are becoming more vehement,"...
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