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To Increase Disaster Aid, Do Not Mention Global Warming
2015-06-22 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Charities looking for donations after a natural disaster may want to avoid linking the disaster to climate change, a study from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, suggests. Researchers found that climate change skeptics are more likely to justify withholding aid if a drought, typhoon or flood is attributed to climate change than if appeals for aid do not mention the phenomenon. "What our work suggests is that when a disaster occurs and organizations are appealing to the public for aid,...
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New Approaches to Managing Disaster Focus on Resilience
2015-06-18 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Natural disasters have become a fact of life for millions around the world, and the future forecast is only getting worse. From super typhoons to floods, droughts and landslides, these events tend to widen existing inequalities between and within nations, often leaving the poorest with quite literally nothing."The biggest mistake is that we wait for something to happen before responding to it." -- Chloe Demrovsky In 2013 alone, three times as many people lost their homes to natural disasters...
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Disaster response gets boost from AI, crowdsourced data
2015-06-18 17:58:02| Extremetech
Digital Humanitarianism uses crowd-sourcing, social media, aerial imagery, and disaster mapping to save lives and find actionable data in the flood of information following a disaster.
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Lawyers in court over approval of $430M fund for train disaster victims
2015-06-17 16:34:34| Railroads - Topix.net
Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Que., on July 6, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson Quebec Superior Court Justice Gaetan Dumas will begin hearing arguments today about whether or not he should approve the $431.5-million settlement fund for victims and creditors of the 2013 Lac-Megantic, Que., train derailment that killed 47 people.
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OriginClear Successfully Cleans Disaster Recovery Water
2015-06-17 02:19:55| pollutiononline News Articles
OriginClear Inc., developer of breakthrough water cleanup technology, and its licensee E3 Services and Solutions, LLC (E3) recently announced the successful completion of a joint on-site disaster water cleanup project in Oklahoma City.
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