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UK summer flash floods to become more frequent, study shows
2014-06-01 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flash flooding in summer is likely to become much more frequent across the UK as a result of climate change, with potentially devastating results in vulnerable areas, according to new research. The study, published in the peer-review journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to draw a direct link between climate change and an increase in summer downpours. The research, a result of a collaboration between the Met Office and Newcastle University, used climate change computer models and standard...
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When it rains, it pours: Climate change brings droughts and floods alike
2014-05-24 07:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: This is really a call for America to find out, What does climate change mean for where you live? says Paul Fleming, a convening lead author of the National Climate Assessments Water Resources chapter. Fleming talks about how climate change will challenge the reliability of water supplies in the United States in multiple ways. Alterations in precipitation patterns and reduced snowpack are some of the climate-related changes that will affect the quality and quantity of water available to Americans....
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Floods affect over 1 million in Balkans, destruction 'terrifying.'
2014-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bosnia said on Monday that more than a quarter of its 4 million people had been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory, comparing the "terrifying" destruction to that of the country's 1992-95 war. The extent of the devastation became apparent in Serbia too, as waters receded in some of the worst-hit areas to reveal homes toppled or submerged in mud, trees felled and villages strewn with the rotting corpses of livestock. The regional death toll reached more than 40,...
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Balkan floods threaten power plant
2014-05-20 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: ens of thousands of people were mobilised and equipped with sandbags and barricades to defend Belgrade and a power station in a nearby satellite town, Serbias largest, against the rising waters of the Sava river, which have killed 47 people so far. Tens of thousands more were evacuated to emergency shelters. Authorities believe the worst could be yet to come when on Wednesday morning the flood crest of the Sava joins the Danube. Following estimates that a quarter of the population of Bosnia and...
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Serbia's Nikola Tesla coal-fired power plant hit by floods
2014-05-20 01:00:00| Power Technology
Elektroprivreda Srbije's (EPS) Nikola Tesla coal-fired power plant in Obrenovac, which supplies electricity for half of Serbia, has been hit by flood water as the Sava river swells.
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