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Texas, Oklahoma Floodwaters Contain Sewage, Other Pollutants
2015-05-28 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Rains that have flooded portions of the middle part of the United States have damaged buildings, swept away cars and houses, and killed at least 18 people in Texas and Oklahoma. And with a chance of more rain forecast this week, these hard-hit areas aren't out of the woods yet. In Texas, the enormous amount of stormwater has overwhelmed some treatment facilities, washing chemicals and toxic substances into the mix, including raw sewage, crude oil, and pesticides. "Anything you would find on...
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United Kingdom: Floodwaters recede but life is still on hold for villagers of Somerset Levels
2014-03-16 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Bryony Sadler was picking her way through the damp, cold, jagged mess that used to be her beloved kitchen, the heart of her family home. "It's difficult to see it like this," she said. "This was our home and look at it now. It's horrendous. We will be back. It will be a special place for the children again. But it's going to take a long time." The Sadler household is one of scores that suddenly had to pack up and go when the floodwaters swamped the villages of Moorland and Fordgate on the Somerset...
Slowing down the floodwaters
2014-01-30 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Putting something called "Natural Engineering" to work in a five-year research project, Newcastle University in cooperation with the Environment Agency are discovering the benefits utilizing the lands natural defenses to slow river flow downstream and prevent flooding. Slowing down water in anticipation of flooding events is being tested all over the world. Strategies include use of retention basins; wetlands development; levee systems and flood-walls but Newcastle University researchers directed...
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Storm victims urged avoid contact with floodwaters as they return home
2013-12-07 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Communities affected by the most devastating tidal surge in 60 years along the coast of Britain have been warned to avoid direct contact with floodwater and beware of rats moving into homes. Thousands of people who were evacuated from their homes will be assessing the damage after being allowed to return to their properties yesterday. A major clean-up operation is under way after the Environment Agency said 1,400 homes were flooded, including 300 in Boston, Lincolnshire, alone. In Suffolk,...
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Colorado floodwaters menace state's $41 billion agriculture sector
2013-09-20 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state's leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion. The main concern is for the state's No. 1 cash crop, corn, which yields between 140 million and 180 million bushels annually, most of it for cattle feed, according to the growers' trade association, Colorado Corn. Cornfields along the flooded South Platte River...
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