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U.S. Hit with 90% of the World's Disaster Costs in 2012
2013-01-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The United States led the world in disaster losses last year as a massive drought seared Midwestern crops in the field and as superstorm-driven waves wreaked havoc and blackouts along the East Coast. They added up to one of the most expensive weather damage years on record. Nearly all the world's economic damage from storms, drought, fire and earthquakes was centered in the United States as it experienced the highest temperatures ever recorded, according to Munich Re, a global reinsurance company....
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Dad hires hit men to kill son's video game characters
2013-01-05 18:52:22| CNET News.com
A father is so fed up with his son's video game obsession that he decides to take radical action. [Read more]
Mending the Bird Preserves Hit by Sandy
2013-01-04 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Conservationists fear that damage in places like Reeds Beach in New Jersey left almost no sand for the spring spawning of horseshoe crabs, on whose eggs birds like the red knot, center, feed during their migration. Conservationists are warning that swift action is needed to repair mid-Atlantic bird refuges that were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. In a report issued on Thursday, researchers at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences said...
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N.Y. trains hit at NJ Transit flooded yard
2013-01-04 10:44:43| Railroads - Topix.net
In addition to NJ Transit trains, seven Metro-North locomotives and six rail cars were damaged at Kearny's yard.
US car sales hit five-year high
2013-01-04 06:30:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US car sales rise 13.4% in 2012, making it the best year for the industry since 2007, industry data shows.
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