User: irge304 Topic: Extreme Weather
Category: Hurricanes
Last updated: May 19 2013 24:36 IST RSS 2.0
 
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Surveying the Region’s Battered Beaches 18.5.2013 NYT: Home Page
Surveying the Region’s Battered Beaches
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State Of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost? 18.5.2013 NYT > Environment
State Of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?
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For Now, M.T.A.’s Flooding Plan Still Relies on Sandbags and Plywood 17.5.2013 NY Times: NY Region
For Now, M.T.A.’s Flooding Plan Still Relies on Sandbags and Plywood
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Letter: Mold After the Hurricane 17.5.2013 NY Times: Editorials
Letter: Mold After the Hurricane
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UN: $2.5 trillion in disaster losses since 2000 16.5.2013 Boston Globe: Latest
UN: $2.5 trillion in disaster losses since 2000
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UN: $2.5 trillion in disaster losses since 2000 16.5.2013 Seattle Times: Nation & World
Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher than previous international estimates, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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Report: Feds' warnings about Sandy were confusing 15.5.2013 Seattle Times: Business & Technology
An internal review says federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall. But the warnings themselves were confusing.
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Cyclone puts 8 million in peril 15.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
Residents of coastal areas in Bangladesh and Myanmar are preparing for the arrival of a large storm that is rumbling toward them across the Bay of Bengal, with a U.N. agency warning that more than 8 million people could be in danger.
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Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change 15.5.2013 NYT > Environment
Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change
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With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear 15.5.2013 NPR Health Science
By the end of the century, ocean levels could rise by 2 or 3 feet. That's enough to flood the colonists' first settlement at Jamestown, Va. And it's putting pressure on archaeologists to get as many artifacts out of the ground as quickly as possible — before it's too late.
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Britain's Prince Harry tours Jersey Shore to see Sandy recovery 14.5.2013 Chicago Tribune: Nation
Britain's Prince Harry tours Jersey Shore to see Sandy recovery
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Christie’s broken promise 14.5.2013 Washington Post: Op-Eds
Last week, as news circulated of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s weight-loss surgery, so did a video in which Christie parodied his own brand — and the fleece he wore day and night during the Hurricane Sandy crisis. In the video, he asks everybody from Morning Joe to Jon Bon Jovi if they’ve seen his now-missing fleece, without which he is powerless, like Iron Man without his suit. ...
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Beloved, Tiny Bridge in Brooklyn Is Opened for Repairs 14.5.2013 NY Times: NY Region
Beloved, Tiny Bridge in Brooklyn Is Opened for Repairs
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Newtok's residents race to stop village falling into sea 13.5.2013 Guardian: Environment

Newtok is losing ground to the sea at a dangerous rate. Unless its population can be relocated in time, an entire community will cease to exist and the villagers will become America's first climate refugees


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Family of killed Bounty deckhand sues 11.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
The fight to point blame in the deadly last voyage of the HMS Bounty is headed for federal court.
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Your Money: After Hurricane Sandy, Rebuilding Under Higher Flood Insurance 11.5.2013 NY Times: Business
Your Money: After Hurricane Sandy, Rebuilding Under Higher Flood Insurance
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Knox: 'I feel bad for my younger self' 8.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
Amanda Knox tells CNN's Chris Cuomo about her regrets when dealing with investigators after Meredith Kercher's death.
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Cleveland hero guy gets auto-tuned 8.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
A hostage rescuer becomes an overnight sensation. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the guy who got auto-tuned.
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Elizabeth Smart: Time does heal 8.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart talks about what her life has been like since her abduction.
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Smart, Dugard survived 'hell' 8.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard offer support to three Ohio women found after being missing for about 10 years.
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