floods
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NBN Has Been Using Wind Turbines as a Backup to Power its Network
NBN Co is trialling micro-wind turbines to keep its facilities online during emergencies.
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Thanks to Heavy Rain, Australia’s Environment Scores a 7 Out of 10 – But the Future Remains Bleak
After the devastating floods, it’s hard to imagine only two years earlier many hard-hit communities suffered extreme heat, drought and unprecedented bushfires. Yet our report, released today, shows Australia’s environment has recovered dramatically since then. Every year we use a supercomputer to analyse vast amounts of measurements from satellites and field stations to give the…
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Los Angeles Is the Most Climate-Vulnerable County in the U.S.
Thanks to global warming, climate disasters are set to impact pretty much every corner of the world, but of course, some places are getting hit first and worst. A new federal report shows which parts of the U.S. are most in danger.
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Michigan Dam Collapse Video Shows A ‘Classic’ Example Of Earthworks Failure
As residents of Michigan’s Midland county scramble to recover from devastating floods, a video has emerged showing the critical moment when Eden dam collapsed, in a failure experts are attributing to shoddy maintenance and climate change.