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Ravens also must deal with Broncos' secret weapon — high altitude
Jimmy Smith knew it was real the first time he walked up the big hill to football practice, his 18-year-old lungs unable to find enough air. In the years that followed, the images of husky linemen, gasping on the sidelines, only confirmed the potency of...
Tags: Ryan Clark, Lincoln Kennedy, Justin Tucker, Water, National Football League
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Perth, Australia's coastal boomtown
ReutersPERTH (Reuters) - The hometown of Australia's richest citizen, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Perth is the centre of the country's iron ore and oil and gas boom, with some of the largest resources firms churning out billions in profits here. But Perth has...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking, Tourism and Leisure, Bodies of Water, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Strong earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated. The magnitude 7.5 quake and tsunami warning that...
Tags: Earthquakes, Canada, Natural Disasters, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver (Canada)
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EPA cites Shell Arctic drilling rigs for air emissions violations
SEATTLE — Adding to the troubles plaguing Shell Alaska and its drilling program in the Arctic, the Environmental Protection Agency announced late Thursday that it had issued air pollution citations to both of the company’s Arctic drilling rigs...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Media Industry, Bodies of Water, Ken Salazar
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Shell drilling rig runs aground in heavy Alaska seas
Days of efforts trying to guide a mobile offshore drilling rig through stormy Alaska seas hit a crisis Monday night when crew members were forced to disconnect the rig from its last remaining tow line and the vessel went aground on a small island south of...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Bodies of Water, Manufacturing and Engineering, Meteorological Disasters, U.S. Coast Guard
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Colder than average winter predicted for northeastern South Dakota
Brookings - The chance of a colder than average winter for much of northeastern South Dakota increased last week, as the Climate Prediction Center released its update to the winter season outlook. "This is change from the winter outlook that has been...Tags: Bodies of Water, Pacific Ocean, Droughts, Natural Disasters
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Connecticut Coast Must Prepare For The Sea's Advance
When the General Assembly was looking at how to protect the Connecticut shoreline from rising sea levels and violent Atlantic storms just months after Hurricane Irene struck in October 2011, a bill surfaced calling for the state to begin planning for a...
Tags: Ecosystems, Conservation, Environmental Issues, New York City, Bodies of Water
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Glen Phillips, of Toad the Wet Sprocket fame, to headline Sea Level festival
Here's a piece of music news I missed in the pre-holiday scramble. Glen Phillips, the songwriter known for his work with the band Toad the Wet Sprocket, will play Norfolk April 4. His set will kick off this year's Sea Level music festival. Phillips will...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Entertainment, Bodies of Water, Water, Music
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State building changes ordered to avert flood damage
Declaring that Maryland's coastal areas are increasingly at risk from a rising sea level, Gov. Martin O'Malley has ordered state agencies to weigh the growing risks of flooding in deciding where and how to construct state buildings. "Billions of...Tags: Ecosystems, Martin O'Malley, Tropical Storms, Bodies of Water, Water
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Mayor Bloomberg wants N.Y. to better prepare for extreme weather
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy's devastation, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that the city needed to prepare for “the new realities” of rising sea levels and laid out his vision -- one that could include levees. “Let me...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Consolidated Edison Incorporated, Coney Island, Bodies of Water, Michael Bloomberg
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Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea level rise since 1992
The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Greenland, Bodies of Water, Water, University of Washington
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California confronts a sea change
Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey don't need to wait on gridlocked Washington to confront future risks from climate-change intensified storms. They can instead look at how California is already moving forward on common-...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Global Warming, Water, Politics, Energy Saving
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