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13 Dead In Midwest Floods; Hundreds Flee


CBS / Associated Press
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:43 UTC
Flash Flood Warnings Posted From Texas To Pennsylvania

mid west floods
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Fedex driver Jay McMullin helps 78-year-old Odell Bunch into the delivery truck after Bunch's Ford Ranger was swept off Highway 34 by flood waters on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, near Jackson, Mo.

Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing.
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Smiley

Adelaide heatwave 'one in 3,000 year' event


Australian Associated Press
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:16 UTC
Adelaide's 15-day heatwave was a once in 3,000 year occurrence, an atmospheric scientist says.

Adelaide has sweltered through 15 consecutive days above 35 degrees - the longest heatwave recorded in any Australian capital city.
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Info

Montreal approaching all time snow record


Reuters
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:20 UTC
Several dozen schools were expected to remain shut this week in the Canadian province of Quebec over fears their roofs may collapse under the weight of near record amounts of snow, officials said on Monday.
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Rocket

EU must boost military to face climate change

Leigh Phillips
EU Observer
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:47 UTC
The European Union should boost its civil and military capacities to respond to "serious security risks" resulting from catastrophic climate change expected this century, according to a joint report from the EU's two top foreign policy officials.
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Bizarro Earth

Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico, Too

Stacy Feldman
Solve Climate
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:31 UTC
Each summer an oxygen-starved, lifeless "dead zone" swells in the Gulf of Mexico from the toxic nitrogen fertilizer that runs off farms in Midwestern corn country.

dead zone
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Cloud Lightning

CA, US: Late winter storm blows in wind, rain, hail and snow

Michele Clock
SignOnSanDiego.com
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:34 UTC
Bobbi Bennett awoke early yesterday to the sounds of pounding. Bennett, 54, a Pacific Beach resident, didn't need to get out of bed. She knew precisely the source: hail. And it was plenty loud.

"It sounded like little hammers," Bennett said. "Just a whole bunch of little hammers."

The unusual weather was part of a winter storm that blew through the county from the Gulf of Alaska. With it came wind, rain, snow and hail.
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Evil Rays

Melting Ice Sheets Can Cause Earthquakes, Study Finds

Mason Inman
National Geographic
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:52 UTC
As ice sheets melt, they can release pent-up energy and trigger massive earthquakes, according to new study.

Global warming may already be triggering such earthquakes and may cause more in the future as ice continues to melt worldwide, the researchers say.

A series of large earthquakes shook Scandinavia around 10,000 years ago, along faults that are now quiet, the scientists point out.

The timing of each earthquake roughly coincided with the melting of thick ice sheets from the last ice age in those same places.

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©Joe Scherschel/NGS
Alaska's Columbia Glacier has been retreating in recent years.

A new study has found that melting ice sheets can release pent-up energy and trigger massive earthquakes. A separate, earlier study found that small earthquakes were more common in Alaska in the summers, when ice there was melting.
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Bulb

Bird uses 'whiskers' like a cat

Susan Brown
Nature
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:40 UTC
Fancy feathers are usually thought to be just ornaments, but a pair of biologists has shown that a little seabird uses the plumes on its head like a cat's whiskers to feel its way through dark crevices.

Aptly named whiskered auklets (Aethia pygmaea ) breed on the volcanic Aleutian and Kuril Islands that rim the north Pacific. They lay their eggs in small chambers reached by narrow passageways through jagged lava rocks, which they enter and leave only at night.

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©Ian Jones
Seeing in the dark: 'whiskers' help these birds to sense their surroundings.
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Fish

Chinook salmon vanish without a trace

Felicity Barringer
International Herald Tribune
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:28 UTC
The Chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry.
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Chess

Katrina aftermath erodes bayou culture

Cain Burdeau
news.yahoo.com
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:02 UTC
GRAND BAYOU, La. - When Ruby Ancar talks about her fishing village on the bayou, she says a divine hand has protected her Atakapa-Ishak kinfolk for generations.

But Grand Bayou is forsaken these days, 30 months after Hurricane Katrina washed over it and dragged one of Louisiana's last authentic outposts of bayou culture into a world defined by insurers, money lenders, building code enforcers and government auditors.

coastal Louisiana
©AFP/NASA

Comment: For a more in-depth look at the "eroding of the bayou culture", have a peek at Naomi Kline's book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism HERE.

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