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Pluto Has Dunes Made of Ice Instead of Sand

2018-06-01 15:18:27| Extremetech

It has been almost two years since NASA's New Horizons probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, but we're still learning new things about the dwarf planet from this mission's data. The post Pluto Has Dunes Made of Ice Instead of Sand appeared first on ExtremeTech.

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How dramatic climate change Southern Sahara reduced largest freshwater lake desert dunes

2015-06-30 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Researchers from Royal Holloway, Birkbeck and Kings College, University of London used satellite images to map abandoned shore lines around Palaeolake Mega-Chad, and analysed sediments to calculate the age of these shore lines, producing a lake level history spanning the last 15,000 years. At its peak around 6,000 years ago, Palaeolake Mega-Chad was the largest freshwater lake on Earth, with an area of 360,000 km2. Now today's Lake Chad is reduced to a fraction of that size, at only 355 km2. The...

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Singapore Dunes LLC gets state permission to build road across dunes to Lake Michigan home sites

2014-03-29 00:25:44| Waste Management - Topix.net

Construction will begin this spring on a two-lane blacktop road that will allow access across the Singapore Dunes to 18 home sites facing Lake Michigan, according to a spokesman for Singapore Dunes LLC, a development company owned by Oklahoma oilman Aubrey McClendon.

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League of Conservation Voters criticizes paved road in Saugatuck Township dunes

2014-01-09 00:35:20| Waste Management - Topix.net

The Michigan League of Conservation Voters criticized the state Department of Environmental Quality for its plan to approve a paved road in critical dunes as part Aubrey McClendon's proposed development on Lake Michigan.

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