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Warm and buttery: Greenland's ice flow speeding up
2013-07-18 16:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Greenland's massive ice sheet is accelerating its slide toward the ocean because bigger surface melts in recent years are softening the interior of the ice like a stick of butter, a new study finds. For more than a decade, scientists have reported rapid melting and shrinking at many of Greenland's outlet glaciers, which snake into the ocean. Studies suggest warmer ocean water and rising atmospheric temperatures contribute to the melting ice. The new study finds the interior ice sheet also speeded...
United Kingdom: Millions told to ration water as heatwave sends demand up by 50 percent
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Four of Britain's biggest water companies Severn Trent, Affinity, South East and Yorkshire told customers to cut back and use water "wisely" as temperatures hit a record 32 degrees centigrade. The Met Office issued a "level three heat health watch" for London and the south-east amid predictions that July could be the driest since records began 247 years ago. Affinity, a water company that supplies three-and-a-half million homes across north London and the home counties, issued an alert admitting...
UK: Sports Direct FY pre-tax profit shoots up
2013-07-18 12:52:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Sports Direct has seen full-year pre-tax profit shoot up as the company recorded a strong performance in its sports division.
Strings concert mixes it up
2013-07-18 11:26:23| Footwear - Topix.net
He brings a group of talented musicians from across the midwest and Arizona to perform classical and pops music for audiences in the Wausau area each summer.
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Prices at Beaumont gas pumps jump up
2013-07-18 06:01:55| Railroads - Topix.net
Speculation over whether Egypt's internal troubles could spill out over the country's borders and impact unrest on the Suez Canal are driving up the price of crude, he said.According to Union Pacific Railroad data, the cost of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude started climbing at the beginning of July.West Texas Intermediate crude is a ... (more)
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