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New strategy needed to cope with Arctic environmental changes: Report

2013-04-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: With the warming U.S. Arctic region poised for greater oil and mining development, the White House needs to develop a national strategy that can take environmental decisions on a larger scale, a report issued Thursday concluded. The study recommends greater coordination between federal, state and local agencies to better manage resources in Alaska, said the U.S. Department of Interior's Alaska Interagency Working Group in its report that was presented to President Barack Obama. "It is imperative...

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Arctic Going Green from Warming, Study Finds

2013-04-04 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Large swaths of the Arctic tundra will be warm enough to support lush vegetation and trees by 2050, suggests a new study. Higher temperatures will lessen snow cover, according to the study, which is detailed in the March 31 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. That, in turn, will decrease the sunlight reflected back into the atmosphere and increase warming. About half the areas will see vegetation change, and areas currently populated by shrubs may find woody trees taking their place. ...

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2013 wintertime Arctic sea ice maximum fifth lowest on record

2013-04-03 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Last September, at the end of the northern hemisphere summer, the Arctic Ocean's icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the average summertime extent from 1979 to 2000. During the cold and dark of Arctic winter, sea ice refreezes and achieves its maximum extent, usually in late February or early March. According to a NASA analysis, this year the annual maximum extent was reached on Feb. 28 and it was the fifth lowest...

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Arctic greening seen through global warming

2013-04-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Land within the Arctic circle is likely to experience explosive "greening' in the next few decades as grass, shrubs and trees thrive in soil stripped of ice and permafrost by global warming, a study said on Sunday. Wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 52 percent by the 2050s as the so-called tree line -- the maximum latitude at which trees can grow -- shifts hundreds of kilometers (miles) north, according to computer simulations published in the journal Nature Climate Change....

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Celstran® CFR-TP Composites by Ticona Tested in Arctic Conditions

2013-04-02 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Man and Material Put to the Test on 'Mission Icefox'<br /> <br /> Florence, Ky., Sulzbach, Germany, Shanghai  &ndash; Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, is supporting "Mission Icefox" &mdash; an expedition to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen by extreme athletes using an expedition sled, or Pulka, formed with unidirectional Celstran® continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastics (CFR-TP).<br /> <br /> All the Pulka components are designed for optimum support for ...This story is related to the following:Transportation Industry ProductsChemical Processing and Waste ManagementSearch for suppliers of: Automotive Injection Molded Plastics | Reinforced Thermoplastics | Thermoplastic Tapes |

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