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Facebook puts old photos on ice
2013-02-21 19:55:17| CNET News.com
The social network is building a "cold storage" unit to make room in the fridge for the 350 million photos uploaded to the site each day. [Read more]
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Arctic Ice Melt Disrupts Balance Of Greenhouse Gases
2013-02-20 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Last year, so much sea ice in the Arctic had melted away that it beat the prior record amount set in the summer of 2007. By the end of the 2012 summer, the Arctic Ocean had lost about 2.1 million square miles of ice, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado. Experts began to predict the kinds of trouble such a speedy and significant melt could have on the earths ecosystems as a whole. Now, one of these effects has already been seen. According to research from...
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New Satellite Data Confirms Major Arctic Ice Loss
2013-02-19 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The stunning loss of Arctic sea ice extent in recent years is undeniable--satellite measurements have conclusively shown that half of the Arctic sea ice went missing in September 2012, compared to the average September during 1979 -- 2000. But the extent of ice cover is not the best measure of how the fire raging in Earth`s attic is affecting sea ice--the total volume of the ice is more important. Arctic sea ice volume in thousands of cubic kilometers during the September minimum in 1979 compared...
'Ice loss, weather extremes show climate risk'
2013-02-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice last year and a spell of catastrophic droughts, floods and storms highlight the risk of climate change, the UN Environment Programme said yesterday. In an annual review of the world's environment, that coincided with ministerial-level talks in Nairobi, the UN group also warned of an alarming surge in elephant and rhino poaching. In 2012, summer sea ice in the Arctic covered a record low of 3.4million square kilometres, which was 18% below the previous...
Arctic sea ice volume plunges over a third in less than 10 years
2013-02-18 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Few places are changing as rapidly as the Arctic due to global warming. Last year, scientists were stunned when the Arctic's seasonal ice extent fell to record low that was 18 percent below the previous one set in 2007. But new research in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the volume of ice is melting away just as quickly: satellite and ocean-based measurement have found that Arctic sea ice has fallen by 36 percent in Autumn since 2003. In winter, the ice volume has dropped 9 percent. "It's...
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