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More rains, more deaths as floods across southern Africa set to worsen
2015-01-19 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Aid agencies raced on Monday to reach tens of thousands of people displaced by catastrophic floods across southern Africa, as more heavy rain was forecast in the coming days. More than 200 people have died in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar in one of the worst disasters to hit the region in years. Rivers have burst their banks, flooding vast areas and destroying homes, bridges and crops. "After surveying the flooded districts from the air, we know that the scale of flooding is immense, and with...
Actual Good Things: Ben Shaoul's Verizon Building Conversion Wants To Stop Floods
2015-01-09 09:53:26| Telecom - Topix.net
There's a new proposal to protect the old Verizon Building on the West Side Highway from a Hurricane Sandy-like event .
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Actual Good Things: Ben Shaoul's Verizon Building Conversion Wants To Stop Floods
2015-01-08 21:21:01| IT Services - Topix.net
There's a new proposal to protect the old Verizon Building on the West Side Highway from a Hurricane Sandy-like event .
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things
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stop
United Kingdom: Hundreds homes to be wiped from the West map by floods
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Morning News: Hundreds of homes are predicted to be wiped from the Westcountry map by flooding before the end of the century, previously unpublished figures show. An estimated 7,000 properties around England and Wales will be sacrificed to rising seas over the next century, according to the Environment Agency. Its analysis, based on current funding levels, projects that more than 800 will be lost over the next 20 years as coastlines erode because they are too costly to protect. Thousands of high-value...
We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
2014-12-18 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out of whack. Thanks to a rapidly changing climate making wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, 2014 will be the hottest year on record and, if were not careful, the Bay Areas recent #HellaStorm will soon become the norm. Everyone in the state knows the severity of the problem: were in the midst of our worst drought in...
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