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Melting ice may release toxic waste
2016-08-05 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era US military camp deep under Greenlands ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of US research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when the base...
Antarctic sea ice may be a source of mercury in southern ocean fish and birds
2016-08-01 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: New research has found methylmercury -- a potent neurotoxin -- in sea ice in the Southern Ocean. Published today in the journal Nature Microbiology, the results are the first to show that sea-ice bacteria can change mercury into methylmercury, a more toxic form that can contaminate the marine environment, including fish and birds. If ingested, methylmercury can travel to the brain, causing developmental and physical problems in foetuses, infants and children. The findings were made by an international...
Ishida's X-ray and Checkweigher Systems Helps Make Premium Ice Cream
2016-07-22 11:54:00| Food Processing Technology
New luxury ice cream König Ludwig Glace Royale has selected Ishida's IX-GA-4075 X-ray inspection system to reliably detect foreign bodies.
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Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
2016-07-21 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Its no news that Greenland is in serious trouble -- but now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet lost a whopping 1 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. Its the latest story in a long series of increasingly...
NASA science flights target melting Arctic Sea ice
2016-07-19 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: This summer, with sea ice across the Arctic Ocean shrinking to below-average levels, a NASA airborne survey of polar ice just completed its first flights. Its target: aquamarine pools of melt water on the ice surface that may be accelerating the overall sea ice retreat. NASA's Operation IceBridge completed the first research flight of its new 2016 Arctic summer campaign on July 13. The science flights, which continue through July 25, are collecting data on sea ice in a year following a record-warm...
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