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Yucca Mountain Termination Generates On-Site Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Plants

2014-06-11 19:02:56| ENR.com: Headline News

On-site dry-cask storage at U.S. nuclear powerplants is expanding since Yucca Mountain repository plans died.

Greenland Glacier Lost Mountain Range Worth Ice Last Month

2014-06-10 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Magazine: For those who sleep soundly at night by telling themselves they'll be long gone by the time climate change matters: Environmentalist Bill McKibben points us toward glacier-watchers reporting that a gigantic one in Greenland has lost up to ten cubic kilometers in less than 30 days. Greenland, that's far away, right? And what's a cubic kilometer anyway? Writes Robert Scribbler: Think of something the size of a mountain. Now multiply that by ten and you end up with a veritable mountain range....

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Mountain forests store 40 percent more carbon than expected

2014-06-10 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: It's not easy to measure carbon in mountain forest ecosystems. For one thing, climbing into these forests can be difficult, exhausting, and even treacherous. For another, many mountain rainforests are almost constantly blanketed by clouds-hence the term "cloud forest"-making it problematic to measure above-ground carbon storage from the air or satellite. But a new review study in Biogeosciences found that many estimates of carbon storage in montane tropical forests have been largely underestimated....

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