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Urban Sprawl Wrecking Italian Farmland through Landslides

2015-09-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

ITALY – Reduced rainfall infiltration caused by concreting over grasslands is putting rural communities at risk from landslides, warns an Italian farm group.

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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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Mitsubishi Electric Helps Fund Aids for Victims of Hiroshima Landslides

2014-10-27 12:27:48| Electronics - Topix.net

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that the company and its employees have donated 11,370,304 yen through an in-house matching-gift program, the Mitsubishi Electric SOCIO- offices across Japan from September 1 through 30. Contributions from employees amounted to 5,685,152 yen, which the company matched to double the amount.

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Landslides add to misery of Kashmir's worst floods in decades

2014-09-12 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Rescuers raced to help communities hit by landslides in Indian Kashmir on Friday while thousands were stranded, homeless and hungry in the city of Srinagar, most of which was submerged by the region's worst flooding in 50 years. Both the Indian and Pakistan sides of the disputed Himalayan territory have been hit by extensive flooding since the Jhelum river, swollen by unusually heavy rain, surged last week. The river flows from Indian Kashmir to the Pakistan side, and then down into Pakistan's...

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