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In the Northwest, Rising Coal Exports to Asia Stir Huge Fight
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: At Spring Creek Mine, a broad black seam of coal, reaching depths of 80 feet, runs like a subterranean river through arid, sagebrush-covered hills. This is a world-class seam formed from the remnants of ferns, grasses and other plants that flourished here more than 50 million years ago, when this part of Montana was a humid marsh. Cloud Peak Energy, operators of this mine, and other companies have proposals that could eventually double the state's coal production -- part of the push...
How much is Delaware Bay's sea level rising?
2013-04-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: A foot. That's how much sea level has risen in the Delaware Bay in the last century, measurements show. Two factors are driving the rise: The biggest reason is that the volume of the ocean is increasing - an event scientists say is related to warming water, caused by a warming planet, brought on in turn by higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The other factor is that the land is sinking. About 20,000 years ago, when glaciers extended roughly to the top of New Jersey, the land...
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Rising sea draws ever closer
2013-04-28 15:35:58| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning. She had been driving to her waterfront home along the Delaware Bay in South Jersey. As she crossed the wide marsh in the dark, the water rose quickly. It became too deep - ahead and behind. She had to stop and wait. To her, no longer were climate-change predictions an abstract idea. Sea level has been rising, taking her waterfront with it. "This isn't something that's coming,"...
Safeway's sales disappoint amid rising competition
2013-04-25 20:47:20| Grocery - Topix.net
Safeway Inc. reported revenue for the first quarter that missed Wall Street expectations as the grocer worked to hold down prices and stay competitive.
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Analysis: Britain's ills on display in rising car sales
2013-04-24 15:16:35| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
One of Britain's few economic bright spots - a 13-month run of increased car sales - may actually say more about the country's ills than it does about its growth prospects.
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