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• Portakabin works around the clock to help the flood-hit community in Cockermouth

  
  eNewsWire — Authority: 132
  The Portakabin rapid-response team has installed an interim building for two Cockermouth GP surgeries, which serve 15,000 patients, after their buildings were destroyed in the Cumbria floods. Working over a weekend and in adverse weather conditions, Portakabin has just delivered and erected a 624 sqm ...
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• Detecting the Hand of God

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 477
  As I find almost always the case, Mshari Al-Zaydi’s column in Asharq Alawsat is worth reading. He notes how there is a tendency among some to find the hand of an angry God in every disaster that befalls mankind. While it’s not exclusive to Muslims, they seem to have raised it to an art form. An art, clearly not ...
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• G77 asks Obama to join fight against climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Copenhagen, Dec 10 (IANS) As US President Barack Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, the Group of 77 countries called upon him to fight climate change by joining the Kyoto Protocol - the global treaty for the purpose - that almost all countries except the US have ratified.Sending out the call from the [...]
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• Looking behind the Curtain

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 477
  In this Asharq Alawsat column, Saudi journalist Hussein Shobokshi sees King Abdullah’s ordered investigation into the causes of the Jeddah floods to be the opening round of a nationwide effort to stop corruption. He, and other Saudis, will know far better than I about the level and sorts of corruption involved, ...
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• I’m Driving Again

  
  MushaMommy — Authority: 129
  Its been 70days since Ondoy rained crazy here in Manila.  Its been that long since I haven’t driven myself anywhere since my car was unfortunately submerged. After 2 months,  the Optra’s back.  Its been back for a week actually.  There are  a few adjustments left, which we hope to finish within the week. ...
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• “Saleem” charity show on December 10

  
  movies, news, photos, gossip, videos - Searchandhra.com — Authority: 157
  Producer-actor Mohan Babu said that a charity show of “Saleem” is being organized on December
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• New York to Become a Giant Swimming Pool by 2100

  
  Daily Intel — Authority: 760
  Most of us wont be around in 2100. Or maybe we all will. No one really knows. But whoever is around in 2100 will be super wet if the authors of a new study on rising sea levels are correct. According to Science Daily : Results show that even for a relatively low greenhouse gas emissions scenario with just 2 ...
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• 2009 Likely Fifth Warmest on Record

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 431
  The decadal average temperature rises have nearly doubled since  the 1990’sThis year is set to be the fifth warmest, and this decade the hottest ever on record —WMOand the first decade of this century the hottest since records began, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday.WMO head Michel Jarraud, ...
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• More than $1 billion spent in Iowa for disaster recovery

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  For the first time since massive flooding and tornadoes ripped through Iowa and left 85 of the state’s 99 counties eligible for federal assistance, the state is reporting that recovery spending has topped $1 billion. Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, right, visits with Cedar Rapids flood victims on the one year ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Al Gore pens bleak climate change poem

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 7(ANI): Former US Vice President Al Gore, America’s most strident crusader against climate change, has penned a poem predicting how the world will suffer, if leaders fail to act on rising carbon dioxide emissions.The poem features in Gore’s new book, “Our Choice - A plan to solve the climate ...
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• PHILIPPINES: Dont forget Mindanao IDPs, officials urge

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 713
  Source: IRIN The government and international donors should not forget the crisis in southern Mindanao after a shift in focus to flood-ravaged Manila and the main southern island of Luzon, officials say.
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• FEATURE-Diamond hub sparkles in Indias climate fight

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 713
  Source: Reuters By Matthias Williams SURAT, India, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Vipul Tejani runs a small factory in Surat, the diamond capital of India which in the past 15 years has been hit by massive floods, rising sea ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• African Union leader warns of catastrophe if Copenhagen fails

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Vienna, Dec 7 (DPA) African Union leader Jean Ping warned Monday in Vienna that the population on his continent would disappear if there was no progress at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.Africa would speak with one voice at the summit meeting that started Monday, as natural catastrophes like floods and ...
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• Army Corps Liable for New Orleans Flooding

  
  Geology News — Authority: 443
  An article at EarthMagazine.org summarizes the case in which the Army Corps of Engineers was found liable for some flood damages in New Orleans that resulted from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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• Avoiding Future Disasters

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 477
  In a clear—and bitter—signed editorial, Arab News ‘’s Editor in Chief Khaled Al-Maeena writes about the Jeddah floods. He excoriates officials and society for accepting unacceptable performance, construction, and corruption in Saudi infrastructure. The country, he says, is incapable of being pro-active, ...
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• Jeddah Bites the Bullet on Flood Control

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 477
  According to this Asharq Alawsat article, the Jeddah Municipality will be taking the hard, expensive, and not-totally-popular choices to avoid a repeat of the killer floods that ravaged the city last month. It will drain ‘Lake Misk’, remove unauthorized residential neighborhoods that now sit in the flood plains ...
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• Cork Floods

  
  Holy Shmoly! — Authority: 534
  A round up of a few videos and photos of the flooding in Cork last month. Photo by David Hegarty Panciostela drove from Victoria Cross up the Carrigrohane Straight to Windsor Motors and posted 3 videos along the way, shooting the flood in the Kingsley Hotel last. Any vehicles in the underground carpark ...
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