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USS Makin Island finishes sea trials
2014-01-22 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US Navys Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, USS Makin Island (LHD 8), has successfully completed nine-day scheduled sea trials.
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PSEG Long Island Prepares for Another Winter Storm
2014-01-21 23:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
PSEG Long Island is preparing for another arctic blast that is expected to bring freezing temperatures, gusting wind and accumulating snow to Long Island and the Rockaways later today. read more
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Pine Island Glacier is shrinking
2014-01-15 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Planet Earth Online: Pine Island Glacier, the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica, has started shrinking, say scientists. The work, published in Nature Climate Change, shows the glacier's retreat may have begun an irreversible process that could see the amount of water it is adding to the ocean increase five-fold. 'At the Pine Island Glacier we have seen that not only is more ice flowing from the glacier into the ocean, but it's also flowing faster across the grounding line - the boundary between...
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Rapid Thinning of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier May be Irreversible
2014-01-15 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The rapid thinning of Pine Island Glacier, located on the West Antarctic ice sheet, may be irreversible, an international team of scientists warn. Spanning more than 160,000 square kilometers, the PIG, as the ice mass is known, is the largest single contributor to sea-level rise in Antarctica, contributing 25 percent of the total ice loss from West Antarctica, according to the new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The report states that melting has become so excessive, the...
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Aftermath: The town of Pangai on Lifuka Island after Cyclone Ian.
2014-01-13 06:16:30| IT Services - Topix.net
Relief agencies were sending aid to Tonga on Monday amid reports of extensive damage to low-lying islands in the South Pacific archipelago after they were battered by a strong cyclone at the weekend.
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