Flooding of land and buildings causes enormous damage in many countries across the world, incurring vast expense as well as causing loss of life. Floods that occurred in England in 2007 led to 180,000 insurance claims, against which 3 billion…
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Global Warming is a hot topic and one of the more controversial issues today. You have the likes of Al Gore promoting and lobbying governments, businesses and even ordinary citizens to change and some governments and businesses trying to undermine…
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Ocean Acidification is having a devestating impact on the world’s coral reefs suffering from this altering of the alkaline and salinity levels in the ocean, causing a weakening and often fatal affect on the reefs. These important world ocean sites…
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As with most anything of beauty found in nature, coral reefs face a number of threats, many of which are borne of human activity, but also a number which are naturally occurring. Anthropogenic, or human-caused, activities may be the greatest…
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According to the World Resources Institute, coral reefs make up less than one percent of the marine environment on the planet, yet they are home to more than 25% of all the marine species in the world. Thousands of species…
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Gustav has been and gone now. On August 31, the National Hurricane Centre gave it an 81 percent chance of remaining at a Category 3 hurricane or higher. The Saffir-Simpson scale rates hurricanes according to wind speed and storm surge…
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Gustav, ultimately a minor storm despite early predictions otherwise, demonstrated that while improvements have been made, New Orleans remains ill-prepared for another major hurricane. Both empirical (“the facts”) and anecdotal (“the stories”) evidence demonstrates the long way NOLA and other…
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Looking at the news from The USA, on British television, it certainly would seem that New Orleans is as prepared, as it can be, for another major hurricane. This time around the officials seem to have realised that time is…
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Even if the reinforcement and restructuring of the levies were complete, to the best of man’s abilities, no one can ever be prepared for a major hurricane or any kind of natural disaster that looms. To be prepared, suggests to…
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Using our local weathermen has become a laughing joke. On Wednesday they might say the weekend weather will be fair and when the weekend gets here it will probably rain. My local weather station seems to have a problem even…
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