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Torrential rain, lack of preparedness batter Tanzania
2013-02-11 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: When the heavy rainfall came last month, floodwaters poured into Magdalena Lweno's house and washed away her hard-won belongings: her mattresses, couches, television set, clothing and her daughter's school books. Worst of all, it took the cooking utensils the mother of three uses to run her business as a food vendor, leaving her without an income. "I can't work right now because my working tools have been swept away,' the 39-year-old resident of low-lying Jangwani suburb complained, from the...
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Indonesia: Environmental Activism at its Best: Greenpeace's Push to Stop the Pulping of Rain Forests
2013-02-08 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: There`s much about 20th-century-style environmentalism that doesn`t work in this era. Demonizing Big Coal or Big Oil in climate campaigns gives a pass to those of us filling up our gas tanks or relying on electricity at home. But there are plenty of situations where in-your-face activism has a role. A case in point has been environmental campaigns against companies pressing into Asia`s last rain forest frontiers. A headline is sometimes enough to convey a big development, and that was the case...
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MP blasts 'insulting' Environment Agency claims over 'wrong type of rain'
2013-02-04 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lord Chris Smith said areas of Britain were facing future problems due to climate change and a "new kind" of rain. But his comments, made after he attended a 60th anniversary memorial service to those who died in 1953 floods in East Anglia, have drawn fierce criticism. Ian Liddell-Grainger, MP for West Somerset, said they were an "insult to the intelligence" of his constituents. Thousands of homes and businesses were damaged by floods last year and eight people were killed when Britain suffered...
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United Kingdom: We must be prepared for the flooding caused by a 'new kind of rain,' says Lord Smith
2013-02-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: "We are much safer than we were, but there is a constant need to upgrade and improve the defences,' he says. "With more extreme weather patterns happening now and the prospect of the sea level rising over the next 50 years or so, we have to become even more vigilant.' Lord Smith is in a café in Canvey Island, Essex, on the sea wall built after the terrible events of January 31, 1953. Waves from the North Sea, overcome barriers along the coast, flooding homes suddenly in winter darkness. "This...
Before and After: Rain Garden at SE 14th and Powell
2013-02-02 01:09:58| PortlandOnline
The Tabor to the River Program uses green infrastructure to manage both public and private stormwater runoff at the source.
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