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Nearing collapse? West Antarctica's glaciers speeding up

2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Six big glaciers in West Antarctica are flowing much faster than 40 years ago, a new study finds. The brisk clip may mean this part of Antarctica, which could raise global sea level by 4 feet (1.2 meters) if it completely melts, is nearing full-scale collapse. "This region is out of balance," said Jeremie Mouginot, lead study author and a glaciologist at University of California, Irvine. "We're not seeing anything that could stop the retreat of the grounding line and the acceleration of these...

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Seven Floors of 12-Story Boston Building Under Construction Collapse

2014-03-26 13:41:37| ENR.com: Headline News

Three construction workers are injured as floor fall under dead load.

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Civilization Collapse Few Decades: NASA

2014-03-20 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Austrian Tribune: A new study by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has claimed that only a few decades are left for our current civilization before it collapses. Mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center wrote a report along with her team of natural and social scientists. The report said that there are fixed numbers of days for modern civilizations, and there is nothing to blame on climate change, or a potential World War III. They cited five major reasons for the social...

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NASA-funded study says irreversible collapse industrial civilization likely coming decades

2014-03-15 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases...

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