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Snow and Ice in Forecast: Are You Prepared?
2014-11-13 18:57:14| PortlandOnline
Preparedness resources from the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Snow and Ice in Forecast: Are You Prepared?
2014-11-12 23:51:05| PortlandOnline
Snow and Ice in Forecast: Are You Prepared?
2014-11-12 23:44:27| PortlandOnline
Less Snow Threatens Antarctica's Fragile Ice Shelves
2014-01-30 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Antarctica's summer meltwater ponds are beautiful killers. Given an escape route down to the ice, the sapphire-blue water jacks open fractures and crevasses in ice shelves, breaking them apart. Most ice shelves -- floating, frozen plateaus permanently attached to the shore -- have a thick blanket of snow that protects them from meltwater. The snow soaks up water like a sponge. But climate change may soon transform these downy snow blankets into threadbare sheets, putting more ice shelves in the...
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Winter brings snow, ice, outages to some in US
2013-12-23 13:12:54| Chemicals - Topix.net
Heather Griffin, of Buffalo, N.Y., and her dog Sal walk beneath ice-covered trees on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, in Buffalo.