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HS2 Ltd to establish new forums to gather views
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:14:32 -0800
The company behind the planned high speed rail link from London to Birmingham will establish forums through which it will seek the views of communities and authorities.
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Preparing for the flood: Visualizations help communities plan for sea-level rise
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:58:20 -0800
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have produced computer visualizations of rising sea levels in a low-lying coastal municipality, illustrating ways to adapt to climate change impacts such as flooding and storms surges.
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Parabon Announces Frontier 6 at Emerging Technologies Symposium
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0800
RESTON, VA-- - In front of an audience of some of the most influential decision-makers in the U.S. Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and other federal agencies, Parabon ® announced today the next ...
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Hotels with poor websites face drop in profits
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:21:49 -0800
Customers expect a host of features on hotel websites, even when looking at small hotels in developing countries, according to the researchers from the University of Portsmouth.
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With climate change, today's '100-year floods' may happen every three to 20 years: research
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:50:23 -0800
Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over seawalls and flooded seaside and inland communities. Many hurricane analysts suggested, based on the wide extent of flooding, that Irene was a “100-year event”: a storm that ...
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