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Melting Ice Sheet Could Expose Abandoned U.S. Arctic Military Base
2016-08-05 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet could unearth a secret, Cold War-era military base as early as next century, according to a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Camp Century was built in 1959 to explore whether the U.S. could covertly deploy ballistic missiles from within the ice sheet, a mission known as Project Iceworm. By 1967, the military had abandoned the base with little clean up, expecting it would be naturally entombed as snow and ice continued to accumulate on...
Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change sickens dozens in Arctic Circle
2016-08-01 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A 12-year-old boy in the far north of Russia has died in an outbreak of anthrax that experts believe was triggered when unusually warm weather caused the release of the bacteria. The boy was one of 72 nomadic herders, including 41 children, hospitalised in the town of Salekhard in the Arctic Circle, after reindeer began dying en masse from anthrax. Five adults and two other children have been diagnosed with the disease, which is known as Siberian plague in Russian and was last seen in the...
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NASA science flights target melting Arctic Sea ice
2016-07-19 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: This summer, with sea ice across the Arctic Ocean shrinking to below-average levels, a NASA airborne survey of polar ice just completed its first flights. Its target: aquamarine pools of melt water on the ice surface that may be accelerating the overall sea ice retreat. NASA's Operation IceBridge completed the first research flight of its new 2016 Arctic summer campaign on July 13. The science flights, which continue through July 25, are collecting data on sea ice in a year following a record-warm...
UK Plastic Waste Threatens Arctic
2016-07-19 18:35:00| Chemical Processing
Indian rapper Sofia Ashraf pens rhyme about Bhopal disaster and calls out chemical company.
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The extraordinary years have become the normal years: Scientists survey radical melt in the Arctic
2016-07-14 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A group of scientists studying a broad range of Arctic systems -- from sea ice to permafrost to the Greenland ice sheet -- gathered in D.C. Wednesday to lay out just how extreme a year 2016 has been so far for the northern cap of the planet. I see the situation as a train going downhill, said Marco Tedesco, who studies Greenland at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. And the feedback mechanisms in the Arctic [are] the slope of your hill. And it gets harder and harder...
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