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These Ice Cellars Fed Arctic People for Generations. Now They're Melting
2015-10-30 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Building an underground ice cellar to store bowhead whale and other meat in Barrow, Alaska, is no small task. Even in the summertime, permafrost is hard as a rock a foot or so below the surface. Last year Herman Ahsoak employed a jackhammer and drill to construct a cellar for the whaling crew he has captained for more than a decade. But in the spring, melting snow penetrated the hatch, and the 14-foot deep cellar "filled all the way to the top with water," Ahsoak says. Maintaining ice cellars...
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LILEE Systems and CelPlan to Reinvent the Way People Communicate While Traveling
2015-10-30 02:21:42| Wireless - Topix.net
LILEE Systems, the leading provider of advanced wired and wireless communication products, solutions and services for the transportation industry, announced a partnership with Wi4Net, a division of CelPlan Technologies, Inc. and a leading provider of integrated wireless broadband and surveillance solutions, to bring advanced high-performance wireless communications solutions to the transportation industry, in support of high-speed passenger Internet access, positive train control, video surveillance and other applications. Executives from both companies will be delivering featured presentations during SmartRail Congress 2015.
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Smoke From Wildfires Is Killing Hundreds of Thousands of People
2015-10-29 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Dr. Praveen Buddiga knew he would find a packed waiting room when he arrived at his office that warm September day in California's Central Valley. White flakes drifted from the sky, as if he were inside a snow globe. The Rough Fire, a 152,000-acre blaze sparked by lightning in the Sequoia National Forest, was lofting thick smoke, soot, and ash into the air-and into the lungs of Buddiga's patients 35 miles away, in Fresno. As an allergist, Buddiga knows that wildfires pose a serious, sometimes...
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Sprint plan could cut off affordable Internet for low income people
2015-10-28 08:37:54| Wireless - Topix.net
Sprint plans on shutting down an outdated cellular network next week. But two nonprofits are fighting Sprint in court, saying that the shutdown will cut off Internet access to low-income individuals, the elderly, and the disabled.
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Network Rail warns people against taking photos on railway tracks
2015-10-28 01:00:00| Railway Technology
UK rail infrastructure operator Network Rail (NR) has warned people to stop taking photos on railway tracks.
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