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[Link] Burning Man Has Fallen: Attendees Warned Not to Arrive Due to Flooding From Storms
Read: 22/8/2023 www.vice.com
The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in nearly 100 years, Hilary, has already caused major flooding and is now moving on, spurring a state of emergency declaration in Nevada ahead of its impact.
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[Link] 'Not fit for purpose': Call to close NT's shipping container cop shops
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
The Northern Territory's police union has renewed calls for the closure of 14 remote police stations – some of them just repurposed shipping containers – which it says have fallen into severe disrepair.
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[Link] 'No One’s Life is Worth a Package': Amazon Workers Are Organizing for Cell Phone Access
Read: 20/12/2021 www.vice.com
The Amazon workers are also demanding that Amazon pay workers for shifts cancelled due to inclement weather. And during school closures, they want Amazon to excuse all absences caused by severe weather and to be paid 80 percent of their salary.
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[Link] Amazon's retail CEO Dave Clark defends the company's response to the deadly Edwardsville tornado in internal memo: 'fast action saved lives'
Read: 19/12/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Amazon retail boss Dave Clark thanked employees in an internal memo on Wednesday, following his visit to the Edwardsville, IL, warehouse that was struck by a deadly tornado last week.
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[Link] The ‘backbone’ of regional Australia under strain as volunteer groups suffer pandemic burnout
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The cumulative effect of natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic has increased fatigue and stress among volunteers in regional Australia, making it harder for them to provide essential support within the community, a study has found.
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[Link] A Snowstorm Trapped 50 People in a Remote Pub With an Oasis Tribute Band for 3 Days
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Dozens of people may be looking back in anger at their decision to visit Britain’s highest pub after a dramatic winter storm and freezing temperatures prevented them from leaving for three nights and counting.
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[Link] Does Global Warming Make Rice Taste Better?
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
Steamed, scorched, pounded or fried, rice always delivers. The adaptability of rice is in part what makes this staple the culinary cornerstone for half of humanity.
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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion.
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[Link] Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens during scorching heatwave
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Thousands of people have fled their homes north of Athens after a wildfire broke out of the forest and reached residential areas. The hurried evacuations took place just as Greece grappled with its worst heatwave in decades.
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[Link] ‘What can we do?’ Chinese discuss role of climate crisis in deadly floods
Read: 27/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
At about 5pm last Tuesday, as heavy rainfall continued to pound her apartment building in Zhengzhou, the climate policy researcher Zhang Jin headed out to her local supermarket.
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