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United Kingdom: Floods: a disaster waiting to happen
2013-02-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the night of 31 January 1953, a high tide was expected, but what came with it was something no one had predicted. A storm was gathering over the North Sea, with low atmospheric pressure sucking up the waves, raising the sea level dramatically, and high winds whipping the waves to fury. When it hit the UK's east coast, the waters broke high over seawalls and surged as far as 10 miles inland. There was no warning and, with primitive communications, little ability to tell people of the danger when...
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Judge Approves $4 Billion in Fines for BP in Gulf Disaster Deal
2013-02-01 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: After a ruling earlier this week by a federal judge in New Orleans, BP now holds the record for the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history. The penalty, totaling $4 billion, is strictly related to the criminal conduct of the company that led to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico. As part of the deal, BP agreed to plead guilty to a total of 14 counts of criminal conduct, which includes charges of felony manslaughter. However, as CNN.com points out,...
NAKIVO Helps Manufacturer to Reduce VM Disaster Recovery Time by 96%
2013-01-28 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NAKIVO enables manufacturing company to recover core services at the flick of a switch and get back online after a complete disaster in 4 hours NAKIVO Inc., the leader in affordable VM backup solutions, announced today that Acorn Fasteners Ltd. - an industry-leading manufacturing company in United Kingdom - has chosen NAKIVO Backup & Replication as a solution for data protection. NAKIVO Backup & Replication has helped make the procedure of disaster recovery from a complete crash extremely ...This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Data Security Software | Computer Data Protection Services
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Why Greenlands Melting Could Be the Biggest Climate Disaster of All
2013-01-24 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: As an expert on Greenland who has traveled 23 times to the massive, mile thick northern ice sheet, Box has shown an uncanny ability to predict major melts and breakoffs of Manhattan-sized ice chunks. A few years back, he foretold the release of a "4x Manhattans" piece of ice from Greenland`s Petermann Glacier, one so big that once afloat it was dubbed an "ice island." In a scientific paper published in February of 2012, Box further predicted "100 % melt area over the ice sheet" within another decade...
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Red Cross Disaster Recovery
2013-01-23 18:40:38| PortlandOnline
Disaster recovery resources from the American Red Cross.
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