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Texas to fund two centres to research impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on Gulf Coast

2015-07-01 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

The US state of Texas has received a payout from the RESTORE Trust Fund through a federal award for two centres of excellence as part of legislation to compensate for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Nintendo says this is the reason its last console was a retail disaster

2015-06-25 23:12:26| Electronics - Topix.net

The Wii U simply isn't competitive with the likes of Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4. Despite the Wii U launching a full year ahead of competition from Microsoft and Sony, Wii U sales lag far behind those of its competitors: the Wii U has sold around 7.5 million units worldwide, while the PlayStation 4 topped 20 million this past February, and the Xbox One is somewhere north of 10 million units as of last holiday. Nintendo's chocked up the failure of the Wii U to a handful of factors across the past few years, but has largely settled on one reason: a poor job explaining what the Wii U is and why you should buy it.

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Disaster won't affect long term real estate market

2015-06-24 03:19:39| Real Estate - Topix.net

While local realtors acknowledge that property sales and prices in Cache Creek will be affected in the short term following last month's flooding, they agree that both will recover in time. Kelly Adamski of ReMax Golden Country Real Estate and Hedda Hall of Royal LePage Ashcroft Realty feel that prospective buyers in Cache Creek will be sceptical about some properties in the areas that were hardest hit.

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Unnatural Disaster: How Warming Helped Cause India Catastrophic Flood

2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Two years ago this month, a flood devastated the Himalayan village of Kedarnath, India, the destination of half a million Hindu pilgrims annually. The town sits 11,500 feet up in a tight valley. Sharp, snowy peaks tower on three sides and a stone temple sits at one end. The flood which occurred on June 17, 2013 was Indias worst disaster in a decade. Several thousand people drowned. The deluge tore apart dozens of bridges, swept away miles of paved roads, and carried off herds of livestock. ...

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