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North Pole melts, forms lake at top of the world
2013-07-26 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: If this image (above) doesn't scare you about effects of global warming, you must have icewater in your veins. Yes, that's the North Pole. It's now a lake. The photo is part of a time lapse recently released by the North Pole Environmental Observatory, a research group funded by the National Science Foundation that has been monitoring the state of Arctic sea ice since 2000. The shallow lake began forming on July 13th after an especially warm month, which saw temperatures rise 1-3 degrees Celsius...
Heatwave: city centre road melts and wildfires blaze across Britain
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: A 15-year-old boy is thought to have drowned in a river in the latest heatwave water death. The teenager was airlifted to hospital after the incident in Roe Valley Country Park near Limavady, Northern Ireland, yesterday afternoon, but died in hospital. It takes the death toll of water-related deaths to 14 since Britain's longest heatwave for seven years began. According to Public Health England, 650 people died in the hot weather from July 6 to July 14, with more deaths likely to have added...
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Kentuckys Nuclear Future Melts Down to Lawsuits
2013-06-26 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Commonwealth of Kentucky may sue the federal government to compel cleanup of the now-closing uranium enrichment site at Paducah, according to the governor and the state attorney general. The quasi-privatized operator of the facility, USEC Inc., filed suit against the Department of Energy (DOE) in May. Shareholders and/or bondholders of USEC may sue the company for a third or fourth time over its current financial collapse, and the feds may have to sue USEC if it defaults on its obligation to...
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Coke's New Ice Bottle Keeps Drinks Cool and Melts Away With No Waste
2013-06-19 19:51:35| Beverages - Topix.net
Coca Cola just launched a new bottle that's as cool as ice. The soda megabrand is offering Coke to its Colombian market, served in a chilled bottle made of ice.
Russia evacuates 'drifting' Arctic research station as ice floe melts
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Russia's environment ministry has ordered the urgent evacuation of 16 scientists from a research station on an Arctic ice floe near Canada because the ice around it is disintegrating at an alarming rate, giving the station little chance of survival. The emergency has sparked a wider debate among Russian Arctic researchers over how to continue their work amid rapidly changing climate conditions, and in an atmosphere in which the race for newly uncovered Arctic resources has become one of the most...
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