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Polar meltdown sees us on an icy road to disaster
2015-05-04 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Amundsen sea sector in west Antarctica is almost as big as France. Six glaciers drain into it and one of the largest of these is the Pine Island glacier, a 30-kilometre-wide estuary of ice that is more than 500km in length. Stand on it, on a clear day, and swaths of glittering ice stretch off to the horizon in every direction. This is one of the worlds greatest bodies of fresh water, a vast frozen reservoir weighing more than 300tn tonnes. With that sort of resource, you could solve a great...
Hamptons real estate market on fire in Q1 despite icy freeze
2015-04-24 01:44:37| Real Estate - Topix.net
It was a frigid winter on Long Island, but the Hamptons real estate market was scorching hot in the first quarter. The median price for a Hamptons pad was the highest of any first quarter in a decade, while the number of sales was the most in eight years, according to a new report by brokerage Douglas Elliman.
VIDEO: Icy waters for Arctic oil exploration
2015-03-12 12:24:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
In 2014 companies looked to the Arctic as a new region to exploit natural resources but with plummeting oil prices and growing tensions with Russia, plans to explore the region may need to be put on hold.
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Icy storm paralyzes central US, pummels nation's capital
2015-02-17 04:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Record-breaking cold gripped the eastern United States while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow and forcing federal offices in Washington, D.C. to close on Tuesday. Heavy snowfall and ice moving eastward from the Southern Plains pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said. With the storm headed east and sleet and freezing rain expected to also...
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Cleanup Yellowstone's Icy Oil Spill Offers Cautionary Tales
2015-01-30 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: On a muddy bluff overlooking the Yellowstone River, Paul Peronard watched as workers tried to mop up oil through holes drilled into the frozen surface. Nearby, a whirring vacuum truck held crude from the first serious U.S. spill into icy water in a quarter-century. The week had begun sunny and unseasonably mild. Peronard, the Environmental Protection Agency's on-scene coordinator, asked for an update. The response: Ice was melting upstream, adding to the cleanup's danger. "Oh," Peronard winced....