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Stinky smell briefly wafts over Kamloops, prompting deluge of worried calls
2014-03-27 18:43:55| Paper - Topix.net
If pulp mill odours in British Columbia are occasionally described as the smell of money, a lot of cash was wafting over Kamloops Wednesday night.
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Now you can link UK winter deluge to climate change
2014-03-04 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: You cant link climate change to specific weather events. That is the accepted wisdom that has been trotted out repeatedly as the wettest winter in at least 250 years battered England and Wales. But the accepted wisdom is wrong: it is perfectly possible to make that link and, as of today, you can play a part in doing so. A new citizen science project launched by climate researchers at the University of Oxford will determine in the next month or so whether global warming made this winters extreme...
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Looming storm to end flooded Britons respite from deluge
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Princes William and Harry helped flood protection efforts on the River Thames west of London as a new storm hit the U.K. with drenching rains, threatening to prolong the risk of inundations for another week. The princes, second and fourth in line to the British throne, joined members of the Household Cavalry and Network Rail staff lugging sandbags to shore up defenses in the riverside Berkshire village of Datchet, video footage from the Guardian newspapers website shows. Hundreds of homes...
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Wall Street Slips Amid Data Deluge, Earnings
2014-01-18 15:50:37| Trucking - Topix.net
U.S. equities fell mildly on Friday as traders parsed through mixed corporate and economic reports, and awaited yet more data.
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United Kingdom: After the deluge: time to look again at our flood defences
2013-12-06 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In 1953, on the night of 31 January, a massive storm surge raced down the North Sea, overtopping defences along a thousand miles of coastline, and submerging 380 square miles of Britain's broad acres. Three hundred and twenty-six people were killed. Last night an even higher surge struck in very similar circumstances. But it did relatively little damage. The River Tyne burst its banks, a sea wall was breached near Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, and coastal areas of Norfolk witnessed the worst flooding...