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Great Lakes ice coverage near record
2014-03-06 23:27:42| Chemicals - Topix.net
Federal researchers say ice has covered 90.5 percent of surface of the Great Lakes - that's one of the highest percentages ever recorded.
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President's budget cuts Great Lakes programs
2014-03-06 16:18:23| Chemicals - Topix.net
Obama is asking for $275 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative . That would be $25 million less than the current funding level.
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Time running out for Great Barrier Reef:..
2014-03-06 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSN: Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, marine scientists said Thursday. Stretching along more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's formost natural wonders - The Great Barrier Reef as shown is this file NASA satellite image In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef...
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Great Lakes Rebound
2014-03-05 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Army Corps of Engineers says Great Lakes water levels rebounded sharply last year after a prolonged low period dating from the late 1990s. A report issued Tuesday said Lake Superior rose nearly two feet, almost twice as much as its usual gain during its seasonal rise. Lakes Michigan and Huron rose 20 inches, which also was nearly double their average seasonal rise. It was a strong comeback from January 2013, when those lakes hit their lowest recorded level. Scientists say heavy evaporation caused...
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Great Lakes oil pipelines raise spills fear amid debate over Keystone XL
2014-03-03 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A freshwater channel that separates Michigans upper and lower peninsulas is a premier midwestern tourist attraction and a photographers delight, offering spectacular vistas of two Great Lakes, several islands and one of the worlds longest suspension bridges. But nowadays the straits of Mackinac is drawing attention for something that is out of sight and usually out of mind, and which some consider a symbol of the dangers lurking in the nations sprawling web of buried oil and natural gas pipelines....
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