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Will our cultural heritage stand up to freak rains?

2015-11-30 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Using an old 19th century apartment block in Oslo as a case study, researchers are looking for conservation measures for heritage buildings. How can we make them watertight, insulated and protected against future climate change? "Up to 80 per cent of our current building stock will still be standing in 2050. This means that many of the buildings of the future have already been constructed, and many that were constructed before 1900 are now defined as heritage buildings. If we are to adapt them to...

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United Kingdom: Puffin numbers under threat from freak downpours

2015-08-02 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Puffin numbers on one of Britains most important seabird colonies may be hit by the terrible summer weather, wildlife experts have warned. Flooded burrows on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have been blamed for a serious drop in the number of fledged puffin chicks this year. Each year National Trust rangers monitor 100 burrows with eggs on the islands and last year found 92 birds had fledged, seen as a remarkable success. But this year only about 50 successfully fledged chicks,...

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Grocery Industry Tries Not to Freak Out as Amazon Plans its Own Food Line

2015-06-03 01:35:47| Grocery - Topix.net

Amazon has long been a frenemy to the businesses that sell goods on its site. Soon, grocery food brands are going to get their own taste of why an Amazon relationship can be so complicated.

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The FREAK HTTPS exploit: Now even easier, affects 2,000 iOS, Android apps

2015-03-18 21:46:18| Extremetech

The bad news keeps on coming. Not only are millions of servers and thousands of applications still vulnerable to FREAK, it's even easier to crack the security system than we first thought.

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