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CO2 Milestone Tips Us Into 'Meltdown' Realm
The Hartford CourantLast week, the world got a case of sticker shock. For the first time in recorded history, the price of our energy-rich lifestyle hit the magic number of 400 parts-per-million carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. There's no politics involved in this number....Tags: Landforms, University of Connecticut, Bodies of Water, Oceans
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Climate change may be baring Mount Everest
A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...
Tags: Landforms, National Parks, Ecosystems, Mountains, Science and Technology
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Humpback Whales Spotted in Glacier Bay
Channel 2 NewsVessels operating inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Southeast Alaska are being required to slow down in order to protect humpback whales from injury. Park Superintendent Susan Boudreau announced Tuesday that vessels will be restricted...Tags: Landforms, Bay National Corporation
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Round 2: Big Sky vs. Big Shoulders
Do I hear a bison chortling? Yes, it's a laugh a minute these days in Montana. The bears are slapping their grizzly knees; the bighorn sheep are high-hoofing the pronghorn antelopes; the glaciers are splitting their sides. And my attempt to rally...
Tags: Landforms, Human Interest, Tourism and Leisure, Politics, Chicago Transit Authority
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Climbers Recover Body of 9-Year-Old Boy from Glacier Crevasse
Channel 2 NewsThe body of a 9-year-old boy has been recovered from a crevasse in an Alaska glacier. Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters says the body of Shjon Brown, of Fairbanks, was recovered at 12:40 a.m. Monday. The boy was on a snowmobile outing...Tags: Landforms
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Body of 9-year-old recovered from 200-foot crevasse in Alaska
Officials have recovered the body of a 9-year-old boy who died over the weekend after crashing his snowmobile through a glacier in Alaska. Shjon Brown’s body was recovered around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters...Tags: Landforms, U.S. Army
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Agency Plans Workshops on Harbor Seal Protections
Channel 2 NewsThe National Marine Fisheries Service is planning workshops in Juneau and Yakutat on April 22 and 23 to take comment on whether cruise ships or other vessels in glacial fjords disturb harbor seals. Harbor seals are an important subsistence game animal...Tags: Landforms, National Marine Fisheries Service
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New images from JPL's UAVSAR, the radar that sees through trees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may be most famous for sending Curiosity to Mars and Voyager to the edge of the solar system, but some of its coolest technology is being used right here on Earth. For the last month, a manned C-20A aircraft owned by...
Tags: Landforms, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Volcanoes, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Google Inc.
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From Our Files for March 31, 2013
100 Years Ago - 1913 The People’s Bank of Perryville has just received a large shipment of the new nickel five-cent piece from the United States Treasury. Cashier C.D. Minor came to Danville by automobile and carried the coins back to Perryville....
Tags: Landforms, National Parks, Politics, Washington, DC, Government
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Vancouver Aquarium Holds Naming Contest for Homer Sea Otter
Channel 2 NewsA Canadian aquarium in British Columbia is offering Twitter users an opportunity to help name its newest female sea otter pup, which has been rehabilitated after it was rescued on the Homer Spit last year. Work to care for the pup began after it was...Tags: Landforms, Vancouver (Canada)
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5 for the road
Hurry up and slow down. That's one way to look at a road trip. You don't hop a plane and zip off halfway around the world. You slide in behind the wheel and get a grip, you feel the planet, you experience the travel. Travel becomes part of the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, National Parks, Key West, Katharine Hepburn, Tour Operations Industry
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Air Taxi Slides After Glacier Landing; No Injuries
Channel 2 NewsNo injuries were reported after a Talkeetna Air Taxi plane with four people on board slid onto its nose after a glacier landing near Mount McKinley Friday, in an incident where federal agencies initially indicated the plane had gone down. Talkeetna...Tags: Landforms, Injuries and Wounds, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents
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