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US Pummels ISIS in Online Combat
2016-07-12 00:33:08| TechNewsWorld
The U.S. government's campaign to counter ISIS' social media presence is bearing fruit. More anti-ISIS content than pro-ISIS content is appearing on the Net by a ratio of six to one. Twitter traffic for accounts affiliated with the Islamic State is down by 45 percent compared to two years ago, and the average number of followers for an ISIS account has plunged to 300 from 1,500 in 2014.
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El Nio pummels coast in preview of warmer world
2016-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: This winter's El Nio has brought warm temperatures and big waves to this coastal college town, where surfing is a favorite pastime. But it's also gobbling up cliffs under student housing at an alarmingly fast rate. California has been counting on El Nio to quench its historic, four-year drought. But drought-busting storms have yet to fully materialize, and researchers say El Nio may do more to hurt the state than help by ravaging beaches, cliffs and bluffs. That effect has been on full...
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New York Nears Record Snowfall After Blizzard Pummels City, East Coast
2016-01-23 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NY Magazine: The Latest As of midnight Saturday, a light snow is still falling in New York City, where a total snowfall of as much as 30 inches was forecast from the powerful storm. Regardless, it has already become the second biggest snowstorm in the city's recorded history (since 1869). Snowfall in Central Park had reached 26.8 inches as of midnight, just one tenth of an inch short of matching the all-time record, which the storm will still likely break. In addition, Saturday was already the snowiest single...
Icy storm paralyzes central US, pummels nation's capital
2015-02-17 04:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Record-breaking cold gripped the eastern United States while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow and forcing federal offices in Washington, D.C. to close on Tuesday. Heavy snowfall and ice moving eastward from the Southern Plains pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said. With the storm headed east and sleet and freezing rain expected to also...
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Lake-effect snow pummels New York, closes Thruway
2014-11-18 18:11:29| Chemicals - Topix.net
Clarkson University students, sophomore David B. Josephs, left, of Potsdam and freshman Dallas J. Blowers, of Watertown build a snowman at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. More than a month before the arrival of winter, forecasters said snow off the Great Lakes could fall through Wednesday afternoon at a rate of five inches per hour in spots, and that wind gusts of up to 45 mph had the potential to make travel nearly impossible along sections of the New York State Thruway and Interstate 81. MANDATORY CREDIT Kelly Prine, an Ashtabula city worker, puts up Christmas wreaths along Main Avenue in Ashtaubla, Ohio, Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, as snow falls to the ground.
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