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Communities And Coastal River Benefit From Norfolk Southern Stormwater Project
2014-02-11 02:35:35| pollutiononline Home Page
Communities aroundNorfolkand the Elizabeth River, a tributary of the ecologically importantChesapeake Bay, have benefitted from Norfolk Southern's (NYSE:NSC) innovative stormwater management system at the railroad's Lamberts Point coal transload facility.
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Massive Coastal Floods Predicted as Storms Flood Britain
2014-02-07 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Met Office forecasters warn that strong winds and big waves will bring risk of flooding and damaging winds along Britain`s southern and southwestern coasts into the weekend, intensifying storm conditions that have persisted all week. Globally, coastal regions face "massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding during the 21st century," new research predicts. Over the next three days, more rain and very strong winds are in the forecast as Atlantic storm Ruth batters Britain this weekend...
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Should coastal Britain surrender to tides?
2014-02-07 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Before the coast became our national park and playground, we once feared the sea. It was where "beauty, horror and immensity united", as the Romantics might put it. This phrase sprang to mind watching the church tower of Porthleven cowering behind terrifying blasts of spray this week, and seeing a section of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Devon railway, the engineering marvel that snakes along the south coast, reduced to something like a rope bridge at Dawlish. Those whose homes have been wrecked...
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Communities and coastal river benefit from Norfolk Southern stormwater project
2014-02-07 18:16:58| Railroads - Topix.net
When it rains, the multimillion-dollar recycling system collects, filters, and treats stormwater from the 425-acre export coal facility.
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Costing 21st Century coastal flooding
2014-02-05 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: So many cities worldwide are threatened by sea-level rise, resulting from greenhouse gas effect. It's likely that the threat could help energise people to try and prevent the floods before they actually happen this time; City image; Credit: Shutterstock The likelihood of damage from rising sea levels is linked to the extent of global warming. The oceans have risen by around 2.5 cm over the last decade, emphasising just how warm the seas and the atmosphere have become already As ice caps glaciers...
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