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USTR Seeking Comments on Iceland's Participation in the Environmental Goods Agreement
2015-01-26 09:00:00| Expeditors Newsflash - Americas Edition
Expeditors Newsflash - Americas Edition
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Iceland's Seabird Colonies Vanishing "Massive" Chick Deaths
2014-08-27 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When the days grew long, seabirds flocked to this hamlet on the edge of the Arctic to rear their chicks under the midnight sun. "Kria," shrieked the terns, calling summer up from the slumbering ground. Black cliffs were transformed into snowbanks of white kittiwakes. Puffins whirred between land and sea. Murres plied the shoreline; fulmars patrolled the skies. Everywhere sounded their vibrant chorus. These days, a few stubborn holdovers streak the sky and paddle the bay, but the legions are...
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What Icelands Volcanoes Can Teach Us about Climate
2014-08-23 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Its not quite a sharknado, but the possible impending eruption of a mile-high volcano under Icelands largest glacier represents a fascinating example of a real-life natural disaster comboquite literally fire and ice. Seismologists have detected some 3,000 tremors in the vicinity of Bárarbunga since Saturday, a sign that the mountain might just be ready to blow. Four years ago, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, another ice-covered Icelandic volcano, disrupted air travel, caused billions of...
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Iceland's krona struggles to survive
2014-06-19 01:13:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Iceland's currency struggles for survival
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Iceland's vanishing ice
2013-12-18 14:38:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: A fierce wind shrieks down the glacier slope, flinging ice and grit like a weather-witch from an old Icelandic saga. The 300-some glaciers that cover more than 10 percent of Iceland are losing about 11 billion tons of ice a year. The glacier, Solheimajokull, a tongue of ice reaching toward Iceland's southeast coast, has become an apologue of climate change in recent years: Retreating an average of one Olympic pool-length every year for the past two decades due to climbing temperatures, warming...