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United Kingdom: Coastal retreat plan to curb floods
2013-11-04 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A scheme to combat flooding by surrendering land to the sea will be completed on Monday on the south coast. The 28m "managed realignment" at Medmerry in West Sussex has seen the building of 7km (four miles) of new sea walls up to 2km inland. By letting the waters in, the Environment Agency says the risk of flooding for hundreds of homes will be reduced. The surrendered land will become a wetland habitat for many species. The sea has long been a threatening presence on the flat land of...
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Estes Park (Colo.) district works to recover from damaging floods
2013-10-24 22:09:00| American School & University
Six weeks after the flooding, schools in the district remain without sewer service. Safety at School read more
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Madagascar: floods & locust swarms threaten to leave residents hungry
2013-10-18 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Faravavy, 32, lives in the middle of an arid plain 93 miles south of Betioke in southern Madagascar. She tries to support herself and her three children by cultivating maize, red beans and manioc, but is unable to grow enough to generate an income or even feed her family all year round. "We never have any crops to sell," Faravavy says. "We eat everything we produce." During the lean season, which runs from October to March, when new crops are planted but not yet harvested, Faravavy and her youngest...
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Flood Forensics: Why Colorado's Floods Were So Destructive
2013-10-08 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Parts of Colorado are still drying out after floods hit the state last month. Eight people died, and damage from the worst flooding in decades is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Scientists are now venturing into the hardest-hit areas to do a sort of "flood forensics" to understand why the floods were so bad. Geologist Jonathan Godt takes Peak Highway in northern Colorado up into the Rockies. The road there winds past ravines and streams where water is still rushing. Front-end loaders are...
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INDIA: Floods halt production at Grasim viscose fibre plant
2013-10-08 14:04:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
India's Grasim Industries has said work at its greenfield viscose staple fibre project has been "hampered" because of floods at Vilayat in Gujarat at the end of last month.
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