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UK weather: flood warnings as further heavy rain expected lash Britain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 26th, 2014
Telegraph: Forecasters are warning of more heavy rain in south west England and further flooding on the Somerset Levels.
The Met Office has issued an amber warning of severe weather for the south west and the Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood alerts and 10 more serious flood warnings in the region, which mean flooding is expected and immediate action is required.
Somerset County Council has declared a "major incident" for all areas affected by flooding in the county.
Deputy chief executive...
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Pakistan worst affected by climate change’
Posted by Daily Times: Amar Guriro on January 26th, 2014
Daily Times: Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change globally and in Pakistan, which is the one of the worst hit countries of climate change, agriculture is badly affected, said climate change experts and nature conservationists on Saturday.
Addressing a conference on climate change organised by the Habib University, experts said water availability, food security and human healthcare were most likely to be negatively affected by climate change, ie, erratic weather patterns, changing rainfall...
California’s drought, times three
Posted by LA Times: Editorial on January 26th, 2014
LA Times: Southern Californians are facing not one drought but three, interconnected yet distinct, each bringing its own hazards and each requiring its own emergency and long-term responses.
The first drought is regional, caused by the lack of rain in our own mountains and our own backyards. In normal winters -- or rather those we have come to accept as normal -- storms blow south from the Gulf of Alaska, churning in a counterclockwise direction and keeping much of their stored water in the air until they...
Chemical tanks ordered removed in West Virginia after spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 26th, 2014
Reuters: The company whose storage tank spilled a chemical that tainted the water supply of 300,000 people in West Virginia must begin removing its above-ground storage tanks by March 15, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ordered on Saturday.
Freedom Industries must dismantle and remove 17 tanks and related equipment at its coal processing plant in Charleston, West Virginia, under Tomblin's directive, part of a consent order signed by the company's president and the state's Department of Environmental Protection....