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Severe weather threatens U.S. East Coast with possible tornadoes
2013-06-13 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A severe storm system sweeping the U.S. East Coast on Thursday delayed flights and threatened to snarl work commutes a day after causing several tornadoes, damaging hail and high winds across the upper Midwest. Thunderstorms with winds strong enough to down trees and power lines were expected from the Mid-Atlantic south into Virginia and North Carolina, and more tornadoes and hail were possible, said meteorologist Roger Edwards of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman,...
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NYC and the U.S. East Coast Must Take Drastic Actions to Prevent Ocean Flooding
2013-05-28 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Thomas Abdallah has seen a lot of water in his 26 years of work for New York City's transit system. In December 1992 a nor'easter storm killed the subway's power, forcing rescue crews to evacuate passengers from flooding tunnels. In August 2007 a five-inch deluge that meteorologists called an extreme climate event shut down the system again. So did Hurricane Irene in August 2011. Then came Hurricane Sandy. As Sandy's storm surge began to flood downtown Manhattan last October, dozens of New York...
East Coast Truckers Get Money for Essential Skills Study
2013-05-16 09:10:29| Trucking - Topix.net
The Canadian government is providing $640,000 worth of funding to Trucking Human Resource Sector Council Atlantic to launch a study of literacy and essential skills levels of employees in the trucking industry.
TAG Oil drills Ngapaeruru-1 exploration well in East Coast Basin, New Zealand
2013-04-24 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canada-based TAG Oil has commenced drilling at the Ngapaeruru-1 exploration well, located in the East Coast Basin of New Zealand.
East Coast Rebuilding, But Vulnerable to Future Sandys
2013-04-17 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, local governments are rethinking how to best protect the U.S. coastline from storms and flooding, which appear likely to exert a larger toll as the result of sea level rise and climate change. The coast is now much less protected for the next storm, because Sandy's storm surge and winds destroyed dunes, flood walls and other barriers, said Joe Vietri, director of coastal and storm risk management for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at a news conference here...
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