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China granted observer seat on Arctic governing council
ReutersKIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) - The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to admit emerging powers China and India as observers, reflecting growing global interest in the trade and energy potential of the planet's Far North. The organization, which coordinates...Tags: Conservation, Ecosystems, Oceans, Marine Science, Metal and Mineral
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared - study
Reuters* Seas to rise 16.5 to 69 cm with moderate warming-ice2sea * Melt of Greenland, Antarctica less severe than expected By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 14 (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less...Tags: Weather, Water, Scientific Institutions, Science and Technology, Oceans
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: study
ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Even so, such a rise could...Tags: Weather, Scientific Institutions, Water, Oceans, Science and Technology
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NASA's next rover target after Mars? Greenland
NASA is sending a rover to a remote frontier on harsh terrain that's unfriendly to humans. But it won't be to the moon or Mars -- it's headed for Greenland. From May 3 to June 8, the Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research will...
Tags: Amina Khan, NASA
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Overseas smartphone fees can be a horror story
You know the zombies that pop back to life even after you stab them with a pitchfork? It's the same with smartphones. That's the bitter lesson I learned after returning home from Greenland and getting a $1,106 bill from Sprint for international data...
Tags: Computer Hardware, Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, Skype, Federal Communications Commission
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Drought's impact assessed by USD Prof
VERMILLION - "Drought is a leading economic loss for the United States," said Dr. Mark R. Sweeney, a member of the Earth Sciences Department at University of South Dakota, during a talk last week at the W.H. Over Museum in Vermillion. He said that the...Tags: Water Supply, Droughts, Environmental Issues, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural Disasters
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Libertyville teacher heading to NASA polar project
Mark Buesing has spent the past 18 years in a classroom teaching students about science and physics, but in a few weeks, he'll be in Greenland with NASA scientists and researchers, glacier-mapping and studying polar ice and how it affects the global...
Tags: Glaciers, Landforms, Teachers, Students, Schools
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Arctic breaks records for loss of snow and ice
A fast-changing Arctic broke records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as well as summertime melt of the Greenland ice sheet, federal scientists reported Wednesday. “The Arctic is an extremely sensitive part of the world,”...
Tags: Science and Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...
Tags: Abortion, Bob Dole, U.S. Senate, Politics, Geneva (Swiss Confederation)
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Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea level rise since 1992
The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by...
Tags: Water, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Oceans, Science and Technology, United Nations
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In L.A. mayor's race, an early poll favors Garcetti, but ....
The mayoral campaign of Eric Garcetti used a new poll Monday to tout its candidate's early strength, while acknowledging that there are miles to go before Los Angeles elects its next mayor. Bill Carrick, the Garcetti campaign's chief strategist, said...
Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Lotteries, Polls, Los Angeles Times Columnists
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Letters: A climate for solar
Re "Power plant hosts' sunny hopes darken," Nov. 25 I hope that after reading the front-page story on massive solar energy projects in California's deserts — which failed to mention climate change once — readers perused the Op-Ed pages for...
Tags: Weather, Jerry Brown, Global Change, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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