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Meteorologists Need To Start Talking About Climate Change
Last week, after raging for two months over an area larger than Perth, the Fort McMurray fire was finally declared “under control” This was the costliest fire in Canadian history, forcing the relocation of 90,000 people — the largest evacuation in Alberta’s history — and over $US2.9 billion ($3.7 billion) in losses. Although the fire…
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NYC’s Elegant Storm-Proofing Proposal Will Probably End Up Being A ‘Big Dumb Wall’
In 2014, New York City funded a proposal called the “Big U”, a 16km barrier around Lower Manhattan to prevent the devastating effects of both storm surges and sea-level rise. The biggest strength of the $US540 million ($728.1 million) project was that the infrastructure would do double-duty by adding parks and public space around the…
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Now Y Combinator Wants To Build A City Because Every Other Tech Company Is Doing It
Cities are so trendy right now that every big tech company wants to build its own. Zappos did it in Downtown Vegas. Amazon is kind of doing it in a Seattle. Alphabet is probably doing it somewhere soon. And now Y Combinator wants in on the fun, too, with a plan to build some kind…
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Woman Arrested For Plot To Kill Stephen Hawking
An American woman was arrested this week for flooding Stephen Hawking’s email with death threats, then stalking him at an astronomy festival in the Canary Islands.