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East Antarctica more at risk than thought to long-term thaw
2014-05-05 14:36:28| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: PART OF EAST ANTARCTICA is more vulnerable than expected to a thaw that could trigger an unstoppable slide of ice into the ocean and raise world sea levels for thousands of years, a study showed on Sunday. The Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica, stretching more than 1,000 km inland, has enough ice to raise sea levels by three to four metres if it were to melt, the report said. The Wilkes is vulnerable to warming associated with climate change because it is held in place by a small rim of ice,...
East Antarctic Ice Basin May Be At Risk
2014-05-05 04:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Part of the East Antarctic ice sheet may be less stable than anyone had realised, researchers based in Germany have found. Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years ahead. www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2226.html...
ACE Encourages Multinationals To Monitor Environmental Risk Exposures In Changing Global Legal Landscape
2014-05-05 04:18:25| pollutiononline News Articles
ACE recently encouraged risk and insurance managers of multinational businesses to assess how they insure cross-border environmental impairment liability risks as the exposures they face continue to change
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AAA study suggests that lack of experience with advanced systems could put motorists at risk
2014-05-03 14:30:29| Green Car Congress
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Scientists Warn Quake Risk From Fracking Operations
2014-05-02 09:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Underground disposal of wastewater from fracking may pose a much greater risk of causing dangerous earthquakes than previously believed, particularly in areas of the U.S. Southwest and Midwest where earthquake faults have not been mapped extensively, seismology researchers said at a conference Thursday. Worse yet, scientists are not yet able to predict which wastewater injection sites are likely to pose risks to buildings or critical structures such as power plants, and do not yet know what operators...
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