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Deals this week: Transport for NSW, CAF Mexico, and Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board

2016-08-19 01:00:00| Railway Technology

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) has awarded a new construction and maintenance contract to RailConnect New South Wales (NSW), a joint venture (JV) of Hyundai Rotem, Mitsubishi Electric Australia, and UGL Rail.

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Antarctic Peninsula Has Cooled, but Warming Will Win

2016-07-21 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the Antarctic Peninsula was one of the fastest-warming places on the planet, with serious repercussions for the local environment, including the spectacular disintegration of a millennia-old ice shelf, and global sea level rise. But a new study detailed Thursday in the journal Nature suggests temperatures on the peninsula have dropped slightly since the late 1990s. This relative cooling is partly driven by the recovery of the ozone hole, and is,...

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A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming

2016-07-20 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the ozone hole along with natural climate variability were significant in bringing about the change. Together these influences have now caused the peninsula to enter a temporary cooling phase. Temperatures remain higher than measured during the middle of the 20th Century and glacial retreat is still taking place. However, scientists predict that if greenhou…

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Ocean warming primary cause of Antarctic Peninsula glacier retreat

2016-07-14 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: A new study has found for the first time that ocean warming is the primary cause of retreat of glaciers on the western Antarctic Peninsula. The Peninsula is one of the largest current contributors to sea-level rise and this new finding will enable researchers to make better predictions of ice loss from this region. The research, by scientists at Swansea University and British Antarctic Survey, is published in the journal Science today (Friday, July 15). The study reports that glaciers flowing...

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