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Most of Alaska's Permafrost Could Melt This Century
2014-12-19 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The permafrost in some of Alaska's most iconic national parks could all but disappear this century, new research suggests. Right now, half of the ground in Denali National Park's is frozen year-round, but if global warming continues at the current pace, just 1 percent of this land could remain permafrost by the year 2100, according to new research presented here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Not only could vast swaths of the Alaskan tundra transform into swampy bogs,...
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Will Radio Telescopes Deliver The Image Of The Century?
2014-12-15 16:15:44| rfglobalnet Home Page
An unprecedented worldwide collaboration has brought together a global network of radio telescopes to achieve an incredible level of image resolution. The objective of this effort is to image for the first time what some deem to be the most exotic object in the universe — a black hole’s event horizon.
Here's what will happen this century if don't do anything about climate change
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Basically, a lot of death, both human and otherwise. In case you haven't had a chance to read through the UN's huge recent report on climate change--over 2,000 pages long, and based on 9,200 peer-reviewed studies--a new interactive site called Global Weirding helps summarize how the planet may change over the rest of the century. "The IPCC report is the most important report on climate change ever made--but it's also very, very inaccessible," says Tiina Ruohonen from CICERO, a Norway-based...
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CHF Exhibit Features 15th Century Alchemical Manuscripts And Art
2014-12-12 02:26:00| Chemical Processing
Books of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy, a new exhibit of alchemical art and documents, opened December 5 in the Museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF).
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Hear the spine-tingling roar of a Fiat S76 engine fired up for the first time in a century
2014-12-03 17:59:18| Automakers - Topix.net
The clip, a teaser for the Beast of Turin film, shows the electrifying moment the record-breaking engine was sparked back into life The next time somebody tells you their souped-up S-reg Citroen Saxo is a 'beast', resist the urge to inflict pain, and, instead, tell them to watch this video. This spine-tingling clip shows the Fiat S76, or as it's also aptly named 'Beast of Turin' - a 28.5 litre, 100-year-old engine.
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