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Peru uses climate twist to lure tourists to shrinking glacier
2013-11-10 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In its heyday, the Pastoruri glacier in central Peru, drew daily throngs of tourists packed into dozens of double-decker buses 16,000-feet (5,0000-meters) high into the Andes to ski, build snowmen and scale its dizzying peaks. It was so bright with ice and snow that sunglasses were mandatory. But in less than 20 years, including at least 10 of the hottest on record, Pastoruri has shrunk in half, and now spans just a third of a square mile (0.9 square km). Melting ice has given way to slabs...
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Some tourists upset by closure of Mount Rushmore
2013-10-03 15:46:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Some tourists are upset that Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota has been closed by the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly
2013-09-29 00:56:17| Energy - Topix.net
A government shutdown would have far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.
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Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly
2013-09-28 20:27:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A government shutdown would have far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.
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Yosemite wildfire still raging, keeps tourists away
2013-08-30 03:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fire crews battling to outflank a monster wildfire inside Yosemite National Park made headway on Friday in confining flames to wilderness areas but were powerless to salvage the region's sputtering tourist economy at the end of its peak summer tourist season. By morning, the tally of charred landscape from the so-called Rim Fire surpassed 200,000 acres, or nearly 315 square miles, three-quarters of that in the Stanislaus National Forest west of the park, fire officials said. But a second straight...
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