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Study: Southern California slammed by weather disasters
2013-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KCET: Twenty California counties have endured weather-related disasters since January 2007 that were damaging enough to merit 41 Federal disaster area declarations, and two-thirds of Californians live on counties struck by those disasters. That's according to a report released today by Environment California. The report, entitled "In the Path of the Storm," crunches numbers acquired from FEMA disaster declarations to assess the frequency of extreme weather events and related disasters across the country....
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Report: 243 million Americans affected by weather disasters since 2007
2013-04-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Drought, record heat and Hurricane Sandy were among the major weather-related disasters that affected the United States in 2012. But just how many Americans felt the impact of these events? A newly released report from the Environment America Research and Policy Center says 243 million people nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population live in counties that experienced at least one weather-related disaster since 2007. The report, titled In the Path of the Storm, is based on six years of county-level...
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Natural disasters are hitting harder, and not because of global warming
2013-03-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: If youve ever wondered what its like to be in the middle of a massive typhoon, the first thing you should know is that it depends entirely on where youre standing. It can be terrifying, really, said James Reynolds, a storm chaser based in Hong Kong. He was on the Japanese island of Okinawa on the morning of Sept. 16, 2012, just as Typhoon Sanba rolled in with maximum sustained winds of about 103 miles per hour and gusts reaching 127. Were talking about the wind screaming so loudly that...
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Japan PM Abe vows nation to emerge stronger from 2011 triple disasters
2013-03-11 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed on Monday to speed up rebuilding from the huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that struck Japan's northeast two years ago, promising that the nation would emerge stronger from its worst disaster since World War Two. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m., triggering tsunami waves as high as 30 meters (100 feet) that swept away residents and their homes. Nearly 19,000 people died and some 315,000 evacuees were stranded, including refugees from radiation...
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Why Disasters Like Sandy Hit the Elderly Hard
2013-03-08 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Heat waves, storm flooding aggravated by rising sea levels and other extreme events associated with climate change can affect everyone when they hit, but the danger isn't shared equally. One segment of the population -- the elderly -- is particular vulnerable when disaster strikes. In Louisiana, about 71 percent of those who died as a result of Hurricane Katrina were older than 60, and nearly half were older than 75, according to a 2006 federal report. About two weeks after Hurricane Sandy...
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