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Apple iOS 9 Wi-Fi Assist: Threat, Menace or Neither?
2015-10-02 22:17:05| Wireless - Topix.net
The web has practically been clogged this week with posts providing tips about Apple's new iOS 9 mobile operating system: Good thing Apple added Wi-Fi Assist to make sure you're on the best connection possible to read all that stuff. Or maybe not.
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Natural Gas Leaks: A $30 Billion Opportunity and Global Warming Menace
2015-04-21 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: A new study released Tuesday suggests that the global oil and gas industries allow as much as 3.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and almost certainly far more to escape into the atmosphere annually. The leakage rate represents at least $30 billion in lost revenues, the analysis found, and it reinforces previous studies suggesting that the much-touted climate benefits of the expanding shale boom are unlikely to be realized unless these so-called fugitive emissions are brought under control....
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Landslides, flooding menace rain-soaked western Washington state
2015-01-06 04:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An unusual burst of heavy rainfall in western Washington state caused landslides and flooding early on Monday, knocking three homes off foundations and forcing the evacuation of a nursing home, officials said. Several landslides in rain-soaked coastal Grays Harbor County pushed muddy floodwater and debris across key state highways, county and rural roads, most of which remained closed at nightfall in and around Aberdeen and Hoquiam, the county's largest cities. "It's not one of these snow-melt...
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NEWCat Menace: Scientist's note names and shames killer cats
2014-08-09 16:17:37| Chemicals - Topix.net
Drastic action: Dr Clive Mowforth may take matters into his own hands if owners don't control their 'killer cats' An Oxford-educated scientist has issued a warning to his neighbours that he will take 'drastic action' if they continue to let their cats kill birds in his garden.
Floods menace towns, power plants in Serbia & Bosnia
2014-05-19 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. Receding waters in some of the areas worst-hit by the heaviest rainfall in the Balkans since records began 120 years ago revealed scenes of devastation - twisted homes, fallen trees and rotting animals. Authorities in Bosnia estimated some 500,000 people had been evacuated or left their homes, the...
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