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Weather Service to test more graphic tornado warnings
Sun,1 Apr 2012 04:27 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The National Weather Service on Monday plans to begin a new initiative in Kansas and Missouri designed to make people in Tornado Alley sit up and take notice when potentially devastating twisters are headed their way. Under the new system, tornado warnings will be accompanied by stark language like, "mass devastation is highly likely, making the area unrecognizable to survivors," according to the National Weather Service. Or even: "This storm is not survivable. ... Full Story | Top |
Coast Guard waits for better weather before rescue
Sun,1 Apr 2012 01:49 PM PDT
Associated Press -  U.S. Coast Guard crews were waiting for the weather to improve before sending a helicopter to take three sailors injured in a storm from a yacht about 400 miles off the California coast, a Coast Guard spokesman said Sunday.
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General Motors Separates Itself from Heartland Institute
Sun,1 Apr 2012 06:38 AM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - The Huffington Post reports the General Motors Foundation, the charitable arm of the American automaker, has pulled its support for a nonprofit think tank that argues against man-made global warming. The Heartland Institute was the beneficiary of $30,000 from the auto giant since 2010. The environmental group Forecast the Facts delivered a message from 10,000 GM owners to the car company proclaiming they were against the donation to the Heartland Institute. Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Sun,1 Apr 2012 01:59 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Expect another wet, snowy day in the Western U.S., while thunderstorm activity declines Sunday in the East. A low pressure system and associated cold front that brought heavy rain, snow, and strong winds to the West Coast continues moving eastward into the Rocky Mountains. Once this system moves inland, limited moisture will bring an end to heavy rain and snow showers. Expect light and scattered snow showers to develop across the Great Basin as well as the northern and central Rockies through Sunday evening. Strong winds will develop ahead of this system, gusting from 50 to 60 mph through high mountain passes.
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Lights go off around globe for Earth Hour
Sun,1 Apr 2012 12:30 AM PDT
AFP Relax News -  New York's Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness on Saturday for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change.
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Lights go off around globe for Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 10:47 PM PDT
AFP -  New York's Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change.
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World landmarks dimmed for Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:04 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark Saturday, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.
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Lights go off for Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 03:41 PM PDT
AFP Relax News -  The Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness on Saturday for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change.
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At a glance: New look tornado warnings from NWS
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:51 PM PDT
Associated Press - Starting Monday, five National Weather Service offices in Missouri and Kansas will begin a test of a new kind of severe weather warning that's based on the severity of a storm's expected impact. Full Story | Top |
'UNSURVIVABLE!' New tornado warnings aim to scare
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Even expert storm chases would have struggled to decipher the difference between the tornado warnings sent last May before severe weather hit Joplin and, a few days later, headed again toward downtown Kansas City.
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Lights go off for Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT
AFP -  The Eiffel Tower, the Acropolis and the Sydney Opera House were plunged into darkness on Saturday for the annual Earth Hour campaign, leading a global effort to raise awareness about climate change.
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Sydney Opera House in the dark over Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 10:43 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House went dark on Saturday as Australians switched off lights around the country for an hour as part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change.
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Greece on track to weather debt crisis: Merkel
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:45 AM PDT
AFP -  Greece has a chance to weather its crisis after the eurozone and private creditors agreed to restructure its debt, but has "a long way to go," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a Czech daily Saturday.
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Space the latest frontier for Earth Hour
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:40 AM PDT
AFP -  Millions of people are expected to switch off their lights for Earth Hour Saturday in a global effort to raise awareness about climate change that will even be monitored from space.
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Colorado wildfire 70 percent contained, no sign of missing woman
Fri,30 Mar 2012 04:47 PM PDT
Reuters -  DENVER (Reuters) - A wildfire burning in rugged terrain west of Denver that killed two people and left a woman missing, ignited by windblown embers from a prescribed burn, was 70 percent contained on Friday, fire officials said. "That's the good news," incident commander Rich Harvey said of the containment figure. "The bad news is that over the weekend we're looking at the same weather conditions that started the fire in the first place. ...
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GM Pulls Funding from Think Tank Skeptical of Climate Change
Fri,30 Mar 2012 02:32 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire - General Motors has decided to demonstrate its newfound belief that climate change is a real thing by pulling its longstanding funding from the climate-change-skeptical Heartland Institute think tank It's a symbolic move, really, as the company's annual $15,000 donation counts as "smal beer" among the institute's multiple billions, The Guardian reports. ... Full Story | Top |
Working from home would help improve air quality, author Roger D. Griffin tells Relaxnews
Fri,30 Mar 2012 10:29 AM PDT
AFP Relax News -  On March 31 monuments around the world will pull the plug and individuals will plunge themselves into darkness for the annual Earth Hour -- a global event designed to raise awareness of climate change and the environmental issues facing our world. On March 29 Relaxnews asked author Roger D. Griffin about air pollution, one of the most potentially harmful environmental problems for human health. Griffin has taught at UCLA for ten years, authored several books including Principles of Air Quality Management, and been involved in environmental research for 43 years.
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Engineering Humans: A New Solution to Climate Change?
Fri,30 Mar 2012 07:54 AM PDT
LiveScience.com - So far, conventional solutions to global warming — new government policies and changes in individual behavior — haven't delivered. And more radical options, such as pumping sulfur into the atmosphere to counteract warming, pose a great deal of risk. Full Story | Top |
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