Cyclone devastation in Fiji

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Published on Feb 21, 2016

Nadi, Fiji, 21 February 2016 – Fiji is counting the cost one of the most powerful storms in the southern hemisphere. At least five people were killed and remote villages were flattened by tropical cyclone Winston.

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Tropical cyclone Winston update #FijiRocks

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Published on Feb 19, 2016

#Winston #Update #FBCNews #FijiRocks

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Rising Tide: Planning for Boston’s Uncertain Future | Museum of Science, Boston

How do rising sea levels impact our region? Learn what architects, engineers, and urban planners are doing to make the coastal infrastructure around the Boston area more resilient to our changing climate. How do we make decisions when we don’t have all of the information we need? What are the most important factors to consider? Add your voice to a conversation about preparing for the future with planners and stakeholders who are facing these decisions. Refreshments available starting at 6:30 pm.

Advance registration begins at 9:00 am, Wednesday, February 10 (Monday, February 8 for Museum members).

Presented in collaboration with the Boston Harbor Association and Northeastern University.

Funding provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and Northeastern University Marine Science Center

Program Speakers

Ellen Douglas, associate professor of hydrology, UMass-Boston | Brian Helmuth, professor of marine and environmental sciences, Northeastern University | Paul Kirshen, professor of climate adaptation, UMass-Boston | Julie Wormser, executive director, The Boston Harbor Association

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Could the 2016 Election Be Stolen with Help from Electronic Voting Machines?

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Published on Feb 23, 2016

http://democracynow.org – Harvey Wasserman of Columbus, Ohio, has been a vocal critic of electronic voting machines. He co-wrote the book, “What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election.” His upcoming book is titled “The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft.” We talk to him about his concerns for the upcoming presidential race.

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Study: Oceans Rising at Fastest Rate in 28 Centuries Due to Fossil Fuels

February 23, 2016

A new study has found greenhouse gas emissions largely stemming from fossil fuels are causing oceans to rise faster than at any point in the past 28 centuries. If the burning of fossil fuels continues unabated over the coming decades, ocean levels could rise by as much as three or four feet by the end of the century. Flooding from sea level rise is already impacting multiple cities in the United States.

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WikiLeaks: Top-Secret Documents Show NSA Spying on Foreign Leaders

February 23, 2016

WikiLeaks has published documents showing the National Security Agency spied on a 2010 meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during which Israel sought advice on how to strengthen its relationship with the United States. The documents released Monday also reveal new details about U.S. spying on countries taking part in the 2009 U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. One document contains details of a confidential meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the lead-up to the climate summit. WikiLeaks says the release includes some of “the most highly classified documents ever published by a media organization.”

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Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries – The New York Times

Juan Carlos Sanchez paddled a kayak with his shoes on a flooded street in Miami Beach last year. Credit Lynne Sladky/Associated Press The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.

Those emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient Rome, the scientists said. They added that in the absence of human emissions, the ocean surface would be rising less rapidly and might even be falling.

The increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny days.

Though these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of standing saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing lawns and trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm drains, polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland.

Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests.

“I think we need a new way to think about most coastal flooding,” said Benjamin H. Strauss, the primary author of one of two related studies released on Monday. “It’s not the tide. It’s not the wind. It’s us. That’s true for most of the coastal floods we now experience.”

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Young Voices for the Planet

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Young Voices for the Planet is a film series featuring young people who are making a difference! They are shrinking the carbon footprint of their homes, schools and communities. You, too, can do something about global warming! As Alec Loorz says, “Kids Have Power.”

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El Niño and Climate Change

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Published on Feb 2, 2016

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Nuisance Flooding

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Published on Feb 22, 2016

A new Climate Central-led analysis has found human fingerprints on thousands of recent coastal floods. Even minor coastal flooding, sometimes called nuisance flooding, affects communities and their infrastructure.

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