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• NSW North Coast could lose in vicinity of 2,000 homes in latest climate change worst case scenario

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 140
  From the Australian Government report Climate Change Risks to Australias Coasts released on 14 November 2009. Number of residential building in NSW local government areas at risk of sea water inundation Click images to enlarge Tweed Heads inundation projections
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• Earths Magnetic Reversal Wont Kill You

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  “Hi James, I appreciate your attempts to get people to think about science and geophysics in particular; but, no offense, this question you pose is ridiculous.” That’s what a well-established Earth and Planetary scientist told me when I asked him ...
  20 hours ago

• Heavy Rains Could Mean Floods…Prepare Now

  
  Totally Ready — Authority: 419
  With heavy rains and record tides in the forecast for the east coast the next few days it is time to review what we should be prepared to do in case flooding affects our neighborhood. Please pass along the link to this post to any family and friends you may have in the affected area. Flood Watch-Flooding is ...
  1 day ago

• Why are cyclones named after women? #phyan

  
  Moksh Juneja — Authority: 103
  Story Behind naming cyclones During World War II, tropical cyclones were informally given womens names by US Army Air Corp and Navy meteorologists (after their girlfriends or wives) who were monitoring and forecasting tropical cyclones over the Pacific. From 1950 to 1952, tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic ...
  3 days ago

• New movie ‘2012′ adds a new scale to the disaster movie genre

  
  Thornton and Denver Weather News and Commentary — Authority: 128
  The new movie "2012" depicts natural disasters on a global scale. In the scene depicted above, the USS John F Kennedy is carried on a tsumani and about to crush the White House. (Columbia Pictures) Natural disasters have long been a staple of the big screen and a new movie set to hit theatres this week takes the ...
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• Scientists Say That Earthquakes Never End

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 142
  A train thrown down by the earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906 (via Wikimedia Commons ). Steve Connor writes in the Independent : Some of the most violent earthquakes that have occurred unexpectedly in places with no recent record of tremors may be the aftershocks of previous earthquakes ...
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• Drilling Into a Stirring Volcano Is (Probably) Safe

  
  80beats — Authority: 652
  A super-colossal volcanic eruption rocked Italy 39,000 years ago, and troubling signs at the site, now known as Campi Flegrei, have many scientists wondering when the next big one will hit. To probe the issue, so to speak, the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project will drill nearly 2.5 miles down into the ...
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• Puncturing an Ancient Supervolcano

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  You have to wonder about the wisdom of drilling an active volcano. But at Italys Campi Flegrei, thats exactly what scientists are planning to do, in an effort to learn about an ancient volcanic monster that could one day blow ...
  4 days ago

• Tropical Storm Ida Makes Landfall

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  Tropical Storm Ida blew ashore with rain and gusty but weakening winds before dawn Tuesday as weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents rode out the rare late-season storm.
  4 days ago

• Yangtze delta warned to prepare for effects of climate change

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Delta has been warming faster than global average for a decade, and the impact is already being felt, according to WWF China Chinas most populous river needs massive investment and careful planning to ease the impact of climate change, which is causing floods, droughts and storms to intensify, a new report (pdf) ...
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• Welcome to the Climate Divide

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  In many parts of this world nobody has the luxury of denying climate science. Thats because climate change is already causing loads of trouble. Take an island nation like the Maldives. The waves of the Indian Ocean are not only ...
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• Some Famous Quotes on Vegetarian Diet

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  I’m not saying these justify anything. Just something to think about. Leonardo da Vinci Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will ...
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• Gabura: a terrifying vision of a world devastated by climate change

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  In Gabura global warming is a bleak reality as villagers face rising sea levels, failed crops and devastating cyclones What would your world look like if it were devastated by climate change? In the small, impoverished community of Gabura in Bangladesh , the concept of global warming, often only words on a screen ...
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• Hurricane Ida causes deadly mudslides, floods in El Salvador

  
  Breaking Tweets — Authority: 507
  CNN reports that heavy rains from Hurricane Ida on Sunday caused floods and mudslides in El Salvador that left at least 130 people dead and about 60 people still missing by Monday afternoon. El Salvador’s government Web site said there were 108 landslides, 209 destroyed buildings and another 1,835 damaged ones. ...
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• And now, this word from El Niño...

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  For several months now, scientists at the national Climate Prediction Center have been watching El Niño conditions developing in the Pacific Ocean and have been issuing regular advisories about its probable impacts this winter -- a circumstance that forecasters could ...
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• Revealed: Log Homes Survive Fires Better Than Stick Frame Homes

  
  Log Homes — Authority: 115
  Log homes are beautiful, rustic, and warm places to call home. However, by nature of the fact they are constructed almost entirely out of wood, you may be wondering, are log homes fire hazards, too? Are they even more of a fire hazard than a traditional stick frame home? Believe it or not, log homes are said to be ...
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• Gabura: from daily life to disaster

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  From daily life to disaster in Gabura. Up to 1 million people were estimated to have been affected and a large number of people are still living in temporary shelters
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• Was the 20th Century Unusually Calm?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 750
  People worry that disasters have become more frequent and more damaging since the close of the 20th century. But the 19th centurys natural disasters were plenty devastating; but there werent nearly as many of us around to suffer the consequences (nor as much media to record it).
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• Would You Live Here?

  
  Matador Trips — Authority: 568
  Photo: Cessna 206 A list of some of the most dangerous places in the world to call home. Trips has already introduced you to America’s Most Dangerous Neighborhoods , rankings that were based on crime statistics. Sometimes, though, people don’t need to go out of their way to imperil the lives of those ...
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