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Climate change: Municipalities unprepared for 'weather whiplash,' warns meteorologist
2015-08-22 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Boreal forest being driven to tipping point by climate change, study finds Climate change is killing off bumblebees: study Climate change 'disaster waiting to happen,' Toronto summit told Can Pope Francis's 'street cred' shift the climate change debate? A top Canadian meteorologist warns that municipalities aren't prepared to deal with the impacts of an increasingly volatile climate that can bring devastating floods one season and a drought the next. In the last five years, Canadian cities...
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British Columbia: oil spill response shows unprepared for more tankers
2015-04-11 00:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: British Columbian officials on Friday criticized the Canadian government's response to an oil spill in the waters around Vancouver, calling into question plans for new crude oil export pipelines in the Pacific Coast province. Nearly 3,000 liters of oil spilled after an anchored bulk carrier began leaking bunker fuel in English Bay, just west of Vancouver's downtown core, on Wednesday. Officials in the province said the coast guard responded but was slow to contain the slick, which spread towards...
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Catastrophic flooding is getting worse and we're woefully unprepared
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: The Midwest is no stranger to devastating floods. Last summer, the region was inundated with two month's worth of rainfall in just one week, submerging farms and killing crops. Torrential downpours following a drought in Illinois in 2013 led to flooding that cost $1 billion. And Midwest flooding in 2008 caused 24 deaths and $15 billion in losses. Across the country, the United States has suffered from more than $260 billion in flood-related damages between 1980 and 2013--it's the most common natural...
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This doomed Alaskan village shows just how unprepared we are for climate change
2014-12-15 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It`s a Wednesday morning in late August, the first day of classes at the Shishmaref School. The doors of the pale blue building haven`t opened yet, and the new principal is hurriedly buttering toast in the kitchen for the students breakfasts. Teachers are scrambling to make last-minute adjustments to their classrooms, while anxious kids, ranging from pre-K students through high schoolers, wait on the porch, their jackets zipped against the chill of the early-morning air. It`s all so incredibly normal,...
Unprepared for Arctic Oil
2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: As sea ice melts, the arctic is increasingly a target for oil exploration. But as scientist Mark Reed of the Norwegian Research Center SINTEF tells host Steve Curwood, there's a lack of infrastructure in place to clean up an oil spill in the fragile arctic ecosystem. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As the Arctic regions warm with the changing climate, the oil industry has sought to drill offshore in the northernmost seas. But even though the Arctic Ocean has less...
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