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Measuring the speed of thaw
2013-09-20 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Researchers have known that ocean temperatures are rising but up until now haven't had any way of measuring the effects of this rise on Antarctica's glaciers. New research will now enable scientists to determine how quickly ice is melting under a rapidly changing glacier. Martin Truffer, a physics professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Tim Stanton, an oceanographer with the Naval Postgraduate School, were able to look underneath the Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...
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Researchers Take Closer Look at Link Between Permafrost Thaw and Greenhouse Gases
2013-07-29 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers explain in greater detail than ever before how the thawing of the world's permafrost may result in a substantial release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and that crucial in predicting the overall effect of the process is the soil's water content. Knowing this, the researchers argue, may lead to more accurate climate models in the future. Permafrost, soil or rock that remains frozen all year round, occurs where...
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Methane release from Arctic ice thaw an 'economic time bomb'
2013-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A massive release of methane from the Arctic seafloor would have catastrophic impacts on the world's economy, possibly costing $60 trillion or more because of associated problems such as sea-level rise and drought, according to a comment published yesterday in Nature. The $60 trillion -- roughly the size of the entire global economy last year -- considers a 50-gigaton belch of the greenhouse gas over a decadelong period from the East Siberian Sea, where scientists in recent years discovered perforations...
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Political thaw raises hopes for refrigerant regulations
2013-04-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: This week China budged. Depending on one`s perspective, it wasn`t much of a concession. The country agreed, in essence, to do what it and everybody else had already agreed to do back in 2007: accelerate the phasing out of a common class of ozone-eating refrigerants that double as powerful greenhouse gases. But rather than haggling over prices each step of the way, China made it simple and cut a single deal -- worth up to US$385 million -- to eliminate hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) between now...
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India telecom deal indicates thaw in Ambani brothers' relationship
2013-04-02 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Eight years after dividing their business empire, Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications agrees to share its fibre network with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm.
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