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• Don’t You Wish You Had Your Own State-Approved Smoking Tent, Like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s?

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 526
  I bet you’d love to have your very own smoking tent. One that’s large enough to be seen from outer space, right? Well then you should envy California Governor Arnold Schwazenegger ’cause this beige smoking tent is all his. As seen from the second floor of Sacramento’s Capitol Building. Click to ...
  11 hours ago

• Video: Venice hit by high water

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Flood waters engulfed the lagoon city of Venice leaving close to 45% of the historical centre under water
  17 hours ago

• Every little helps, drainage-wise

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Thanks to Jim P’s comment on  THIS ,  which has alerted us to the Highways Agency’s planned works on the M3 between J2 and J3 at Lightwater. Here’s what they say they’ll be doing between December this year and April 2010: “Sections of the hard shoulder will be replaced and strengthened as it has ...
  21 hours ago

• Video: Bangladesh - Rising tides force climate migration

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Two families struggle to cope with their new environmental reality as water levels rise in Bangladesh Harriet Grant John Domokos
  23 hours ago

• Letters: Water, water everywhere – and a drop to drink

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  It is unfortunate that Ian Jack ( A nation divided by the weather , 28 November) confines the real issue to his short final paragraph. However, in doing so he reflects the neglect which has characterised political attention to what has been described as "the petroleum of the 21st century". We can be confident of two ...
  1 day ago

• Checking local water levels

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Firstly, the Environment Agency reports no flood alerts  for this part of Surrey [Click to enlarge picture]. Now, having acquired an interest in surface water drainage, following Lightwater’s flood events of 2006 and 2007, I wondered about the effect of the recent heavy rain on local water levels? And so, ...
  1 day ago

• Britain to have first winter frost

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Britain is set to experience its first frost of the winter on Monday night.
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Toll in Saudi Arabia reaches 98 after heavy rains, flooding

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA -- The death toll from the heaviest rainfall to hit Saudi Arabia in years rose to 98 on Saturday as more bodies were recovered, with dozens more expected to be found, a rescue services spokesman said.
  2 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  2 days ago

• Green Alert Issued by COPECO

  
  Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras — Authority: 512
  The Honduran Permanent Contingency Committee (Copeco) issued a green alert Friday after constant rains caused flooding in the north and in the Caribbean area of Honduras. Copeco said the measure will be in effect for three days in the departments of Atlantida, Colon, the Bay Islands, Cortes, and [...]
  2 days ago

• Life back in the Tsavo

  
  Bushmeat in Kenya — Authority: 395
  I was pleasantly surprised when I came across a coalition of five cheetahs 2 km from the Kilaguni lodge airstrip in Tsavo West National Park. I have driven through this park over a dozen times in the last 4 years and the only cat I have ever saw was a leopard in Ngulia. But the group of cheetahs below (possibly a ...
  3 days ago

• Prince praises policeman killed when Cumbria bridge collapsed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Neighbours, colleagues and bikers join family for funeral of officer who specialised in comforting bereaved families Hundreds of neighbours turned out today for the funeral of a police specialist in comforting bereaved families who died turning traffic away from a bridge when it collapsed in Cumbrias floods. ...
  3 days ago

• National Trust flood pictures

  
  Field Day — Authority: 137
    Here are some photos from the National Trust, showing some of the terrible flooding in the North West. The Trust is now planning a massive programme of restoration work in the Cumbrian countryside following the rain and floods. Hundreds of staff and volunteers have been working to deal ...
  3 days ago

• S. Arabia Nets Climate Change Q3 Dividends

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 136
  Saudi Flood Death Toll Tops 88Saudi Arabia collects at least 88 dead in oil induced climate change Q3 profitsAt least 88 people have died in the heaviest flooding to hit Saudi Arabia in in living memory.As Muslim pilgrims were casting stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj, ...
  3 days ago

• Prince Charles to visit flood-hit Cumbria

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Hundreds expected at funeral of policeman swept away in floods The Prince of Wales will fly the flag for "Christmas in Cumbria" today, as hundreds of mourners are expected to pay tribute to the police officer, Bill Barker, who was swept away in the Workington floods. Prince Charles has cancelled engagements to ...
  3 days ago

• Voices from the Flats – News from Nunam Iqua

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 608
  Good morning Mudflatters! You’ve slept off the turkey, you’ve crammed yourself into your pants, you’ve gone to Sears at 3am to get a $5 washing machine, you’ve downed your weekly allotment of coffee, and you’ve settled in to check the cyber-world and see what’s going on. News of the ex-gov perhaps? Rush ...
  3 days ago

• A library flooding experience

  
  Connecting Librarian — Authority: 92
  It could have been a lot worse, but with so many people expressing their empathy, I thought I would take the time to blog the story of my library being flooded.  I will blog later about the implications further down the track. Yesterday in Melbourne (Thursday 26th November), a severe thunderstorm came through, ...
  4 days ago

• Massive rainfall in Saudi Arabia leaves a large death toll

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 524
  77+ have died as a result of the floods source Related posts: The swine flu death toll has risen significantly The financial toll from the flooding is nothing short of massive A quake in Italy could leave a huge death toll
  4 days ago

• Cumbria floods: Soldiers to start building bridge over Derwent in Workington

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Round-the-clock effort to restore river crossing • Residents look forward to end commuting chaos Two hundred soldiers start work in Workington tomorrow on round-the-clock building of a footbridge to end two weeks of misery for 30,000 people in the Cumbrian town, which has been sliced in two by floods. The ...
  4 days ago

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