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Canada: Dozens Flee Homes After Fuel Train Cars Derail, Explode West of Edmonton

2013-10-19 18:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC: A CN Rail train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil has derailed and exploded about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton, prompting an evacuation in the tiny community of Gainford. Parkland County Emergency Services says it received a call about the accident involving a westbound train around 1 a.m. MT Saturday. Firefighters block the highway near Gainford, Alta. as emergency crews battle a fire at the scene where 13 rail cars came off the tracks in an early-morning derailment. (Dan Riedlhuber/Reuters)...

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Indians flee east coast as Cyclone Phailin makes landfall

2013-10-12 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Almost half a million people have fled the eastern Indian coast, many leaving just hours before a "super cyclone" hit the country. The vast weather system cyclone Phailin was generating winds of up to 220km/h (136mph) and forcing huge waves far inland before it struck the shores of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states just after 9pm local time. Aid and disaster management officials estimated that up to 12 million people lie in its path. They forecast widespread destruction and disruption though...

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Crop pests head polewards to flee heat

2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: A fungus is heading your way. The caterpillars are on the march. So are viruses and any number of insects and nematode worms, and since 1960 they have been shifting north and south at an average speed of 3 kilometres a year as the world warms, according to researchers at Exeter University in the UK. Sandra Gurr and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they looked at more than 26,000 observations of 612 well-known crop pests and had access to observations made much earlier, including...

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Residents flee as fire rages at Marathon, near Athens

2013-08-05 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A wildfire fanned by strong winds raged near Athens on Monday, damaging homes and sending residents fleeing, fire brigade officials said. Reuters witnesses said the blaze had damaged at least three homes at a hamlet by the town of Marathon - the site of the historic 490 BC battle between Athenians and Persians about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the Greek capital. "The flames have reached homes, but we don't know yet how many are threatened," said a fire brigade official, speaking on...

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