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Sea ice changes are affecting vegetation on land
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Public Media: The Arctic sea ice has been surprising scientists for the last six years. It set a new record for melting back during the International Polar Year in 2007. Last year it beat that record, but at the same time the seasonal ice in the Bering Sea has been increasing also to a record last winter. Whatever is driving these changes is also beginning to affect the vegetation on land. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology set up a series of test plots along the Dalton Highway...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Age Gains 20 Million Years
2013-09-06 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have formed 20 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers propose, after updating a detail in global climate models, placing more confidence in those models' ability to predict future changes in global climate. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet accounts for only about 10 percent of the ice on the continent today. It sits below sea level and is subject to melting from warm air and seawater infiltration, more so than the larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet,...
Ice Wall Offers Thin Hope for Fukushima Recovery
2013-09-04 18:33:43| TechNewsWorld
The Japanese government on Tuesday announced it would be allocating $473 million to help the operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant build an ice wall to prevent water being used to cool it from poisoning the surrounding groundwater. However, the proposal would be at best a short-term solution to the troubled facility's problems stemming from a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Japan to Build $320mil Ice Wall Around Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-09-03 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In an attempt to stop contaminated water from leaking out of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and entering the flow of groundwater that empties into the ocean, Japanese government announced Tuesday a plan to build a costly "ice wall" around the crippled nuclear plant. At at cost of 32 billion yen (about $320 million) the underground ice wall will theoretically prevent contaminated groundwater from flowing out to sea by freezing the soil. Freezing the ground as a method of pollution control...
Japan to construct ice wall to stem Fukushima radioactive water
2013-09-03 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Japan's government is to spend almost $500m (320m) in an attempt to contain leaks and decontaminate highly toxic water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The measures, announced on Tuesday, come as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), struggles to prevent leaks into the Pacific Ocean and to find a way to contain and treat the huge volume of water that has accumulated at the site since it was hit by a tsunami in March 2011. The decision is widely seen as a safety appeal...
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