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Surprising "Lake" Bigger Than West Virginia Found Inside Greenland Ice
2014-01-03 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A vast aquifer "lake" lies trapped under southeastern Greenland, scientists report, based on ice core results. The finding may help reveal a changing climate's effects on the world's massive, but shrinking, ice sheets. Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, covers some 656,000 square miles (1,710,000 square kilometers). Together with Antarctica's even more vast ice sheet, its melting in a warming climate is a big factor in projections of future sea-level rise. That is why the...
Toronto ice storm: 290 in dark as power slowly returns
2013-12-31 09:13:57| Energy - Topix.net
About 290 customers are still without electricity in Toronto, but everyone's power should be fully restored today, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said, more than a week after an ice storm hit Eastern Canada and knocked out electricity to about 300,000.
Trapped ship passengers set to ring in New Year in Antarctic ice
2013-12-31 04:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Passengers and crew aboard a Russian ship trapped for eight days in ice off Antarctica planned to ring in the New Year with dinner, drinks and song as they waited for a break in a blizzard to allow a Chinese helicopter to rescue them. But they can't party too hard because the rescue could come at any minute. The Akademik Shokalskiy, trapped since December 24 about 100 nautical miles east of a French Antarctic station, Dumont D'Urville, and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania, welcomes...
State to allow some ice storm debris in landfills
2013-12-31 03:21:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
State environmental officials are allowing six counties hit hardest by the pre-Christmas holiday ice storm to send debris from fallen and cut branches to landfills.
Toronto's mayor says just 725 customers left without power after ice storm
2013-12-30 20:50:28| Energy - Topix.net
Toronto Hydro says the number of homes and businesses in the dark has been trimmed to about 3,000 and if all goes well, those customers will likely be back on the grid sometime today.
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