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Winter Storm Batters Northeast; 500,000 Without Power
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2013
Associated Press: A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights, sending office workers home early and knocking out power to half a million customers across the Northeast.
By Friday night, more than 18.5 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut, and more than 16 inches covered parts of Mansfield, Mass., a half-hour drive southwest of Boston. Throughout the...
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Bangladesh faces mass migration, loss of land from climate change
Posted by Malaysian Star: Raveena Aulakh on February 9th, 2013
Malaysian Star: It is hard to imagine Shamisur Gazi sprinting up a tree. He is 86, has a hump on his back and, at the best of times, he needs a cane to walk.
But people do extraordinary things in extraordinary circumstances.
On May 25, 2009, a few hours before Cyclone Aila hit Bangladesh and India, Gazi remembers the rain — it was relentless, it came down in brown sheets and visibility was barely two metres.
The wind was fierce, but toward mid-afternoon, it suddenly picked up more momentum and began toppling...
Rapacious War Against Nature: Indonesian Palm Oil
Posted by Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter on February 9th, 2013
Huffington Post: A couple decades ago just prior to my postgraduate studies at The University of Melbourne I had the privilege of visiting an Indonesian rainforest. I encourage everyone to spend one night in a tropical rainforest; its rich array and cacophony of jungle life will change your life -- forever.
A lot has changed since then -- the ferocity and scale of 'The War Against Nature' is heartbreaking -- 300 football fields an hour of priceless tropical rainforests are being felled to make room for unregulated...
Storm’s Heavy Snow and High Winds Lash at the Northeast
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2013
New York Times: A vast storm system descended on the Northeast on Friday, bringing high winds, deepening snow and threats of flooding to southern New England and reopening the old wounds of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York. After a day of pelting wet snow, five states — New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island — had declared states of emergency, and Massachusetts had banned vehicles from every road in the state. As dusk fell, conditions quickly deteriorated. Major highways...
Blizzard wallops Northeast, closes roads
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2013
Reuters: A blizzard continued to pummel the Northeastern United States on Saturday, disrupting thousands of flights, shutting down roads and mass transit and blanketing the region with heavy snowfall.
Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, with more than 200,000 reported outages in Massachusetts, more than 100,000 in Rhode Island, and 30,000 in Connecticut, according to local utilities.
Forecasters warned that about 2 feet of snow would blanket most of the Boston area with some spots getting as...