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The hard math of flood insurance in a warming world
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Thousands of homeowners in flood-prone parts of the country are going to be in for a rude awakening. On Oct. 1, new changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which offers government-subsidized policies for households and businesses threatened by floods, mean that businesses in flood zones and homes that have been severely or repeatedly flooded will start going up 25% a year until rates reach levels that would reflect the actual risk from flooding. (Higher rates for second or vacation...
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Toxic algal blooms and warming waters: The climate connection
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: A photograph displayed in Jacki and John Williford`s home commemorates a camping trip that would go down in family history. The most memorable event from that outing in 2011 involved the mussels John and his two children collected from a dock near Sequim Bay State Park on Washington`s Olympic Peninsula. The family took them back to their campsite and steamed them in white wine with garlic and oregano. It was really good. Like the best mussels in the whole wide world, remembers their son Jaycee,...
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Pollock, salmon and global warming: tricky questions of sustainability
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Crosscut: Editor's note: Seattle's $5 billion commercial fishing industry has defined and sustained this city from its founding. Earlier this week, writer Daniel Jack Chasan looked at the local fleet's key role in the world's largest single fishery, the walleye pollock off Alaska's coast and in the eastern Bering Sea. Today, he concludes the examination of the pollock's sustainability and we wrap up our Thanks for All the Fish series. Basically, everyone wants the North Pacific fishing management system...
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COLOMBIA: Global warming and Latin America challenge cotton
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The impact of global warming on cotton production, and the challenge of raising visibility of the fibre among consumers in Latin America were some of the issues tabled by industry executives this week.
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Let It Burn: Changing Firefighting Techniques for a Warming World
2013-10-04 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: We usually measure wildfires in acres burnt or the number of homes destroyed. But there`s a human toll to fires as well. So far this year 32 people have lost their lives fighting fires, the highest number in nearly 20 years--and the fire season isn`t done yet. More than half of those deaths occurred in a single incident, when all but one of a 20-man firefighting crew were killed during the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona in June. Those deaths were tragic and random, the result of an unpredictable...
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