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Glaciers in Antarctic thought stable suddenly melting massive rate
2015-05-21 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A sudden and massive melting of glaciers in a part of the Antarctic that was thought to be relatively stable has been detected by satellites monitoring the polar ice sheet, scientists have said. Many glaciers in the Southern Antarctic Peninsula have become unstable since 2009, releasing vast amounts of ice into the sea equivalent to about 56bn tonnes of meltwater each year, the researchers said. Multiple glaciers along a stretch of coastline 750km long have suddenly and consistently started...
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Primary rainforest cleared massive palm oil plantations in Peru
2015-05-20 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Two palm oil plantations have recently been established in Peru, supplanting primary forest. Satellite imagery analysis shows extent of the massive development, which is led by a group of companies tied to plantation entrepreneur and United Cacao CEO Dennis Melka. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Investigation Agency. More than 9,400 hectares of closed-canopy Amazonian rainforest has been removed for two oil palm plantations in the Peruvian region of Ucayali since 2011, according to scientists...
NASA: Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Disappear Completely Few Years
2015-05-18 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: An Antarctic ice shelf roughly half the size of Rhode Island will disintegrate completely within the next few years, according to a NASA study released Thursday. In 2002, two-thirds of the Larsen B Ice Shelf - which had been intact for more than 10,000 years - broke up in less than six weeks. The remaining portion of the ice shelf covers about 625 square miles along the Antarctic Peninsula, extending toward the southern tip of South America. Using data collected from airborne surveys and radar,...
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Ohio Recycling Plant Begins its Recovery After Massive Fire
2015-05-18 03:25:00| Waste Age
Representatives from a recycling plant where a raging fire caused propane tanks to explode thrusting black plumes of smoke into the sky say they could begin removing the scorched debris from the plant today. read more
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Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Faces Imminent Risk of Collapse
2015-05-13 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: An Antarctic ice shelf that is twice the size of Hawaii is at "imminent risk' of collapse and needs to be monitored carefully, a new study finds. The ice shelf--Larsen C--is located in roughly the same geography as the Larsen A and B ice shelves, which disintegrated in 1995 and 2002, respectively. Larsen C covers 19,300 square miles and is the largest shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. If it melts, it could significantly raise global sea levels, said Paul Holland, the lead author of the study and...
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