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Heavy rain brings floods to Philippines; markets, offices shut
2013-08-19 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy rain in the Philippine capital forced the closure of government offices, schools, banks and most private companies on Monday, and residents in parts of the city and nearby provinces had to flee from their homes because of floods. The monsoon rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, also led to the closure of the Philippine Stock Exchange, the Philippine Dealing System foreign exchange platform and the secondary debt market via the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp after government offices...
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Superstorm task force says as coasts rebuild, they should prep for rising seas, future floods
2013-08-19 04:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A presidential task force charged with developing a strategy for rebuilding areas damaged by Superstorm Sandy has issued a report recommending 69 policy initiatives, most focused on a simple warning: Plan for future storms in an age of climate change and rising sea levels. The report released Monday by the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force says coastal communities should assume floods are going to happen more frequently and realize that spending more now on protective measures could save money...
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40 killed as floods ravage NE China
2013-08-18 20:13:55| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Hundreds of thousands of people have been engaged in relief efforts in northeast China as the worst flooding in decades has killed at least 40 people since Friday.
Fires, smoke, floods are drawbacks of Alaska's hot summer
2013-08-17 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alaska residents have been enjoying an unusually warm, sunny summer, but the pleasant weather has come at a cost: choking smoke from an extended wildfire season, flooding rivers due to fast-melting snow and glacial ice, and fish covered in algae. Wildfires have burned 1.25 million acres across Alaska this summer, according to the state's fire-management center, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Seventy fires were active on Friday, including a 57,870-acre (23,400-hectare) blaze near Delta...
Australian floods lowered worldwide sea levels
2013-08-15 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Flood-inducing rainfall in Australia in 2010 was so severe that it lowered worldwide sea levels. Scientists have been puzzled by satellite data that shows sea levels fell in 2011. A paper published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters attributes a lot of the surprising sea-level decline to antipodean deluges - record-breaking rainfall that was linked to climate change. Seas have been rising by about 3 millimeters a year in recent decades. But from mid-2010 until 2011 sea levels...
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