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Drought in West is Literally Moving Mountains
2014-08-21 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate change is driving the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt, which is contributing to sea level rise. But imagine that the same amount of water melting from Greenland each year is being lost in California and the rest of the West because of the epic drought there. What happens? The land in the West begins to rise. In fact, some parts of California's mountains have been uplifted as much as 15 millimeters (about 0.6 inches) in the past 18 months because the massive amount of water lost in the drought...
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Man-Made Earthquakes Exist, And They Are Literally Changing Our World
2014-08-09 08:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: This isn't just the stuff of comic-book villains: Real humans in the real world--actually, in Oklahoma, of all places--can cause earthquakes. Scientists have known about man-made earthquakes for decades. They've blame some reservoirs for seismic activity because reservoir water that trickles underground ends up lubricating faults that then slip--or, quake--as a result. These days, there appears to be a more common and growing culprit: fracking. (Scientists believe it's the deep disposal of...
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Water Meter Readers are Going Places (Literally)
2014-03-24 16:30:39| PortlandOnline
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These are dark days for the Arctic literally
2014-02-19 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Things are getting gloomy up north, where the Arctic region is losing its albedo. No, not libido - this isn`t a problem that can be fixed with ice-blue pills and adventurous nature videos. Albedo. It`s a scientific term that refers to the amount of light that the surface of the planet reflects back into space. Reflecting light away from the Earth helps keep things cool, so the loss of Arctic albedo is a major problem. And new research has concluded that the problem is an even greater one than...
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Surgically implanted headphones are literally 'in-ear'
2013-06-28 22:17:24| CNET News.com
Thanks to a body mod that stuck magnetic speakers in his ears, would-be cyborg Rich Lee enjoys an unusually convenient setup for listening to music. [Read more]
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