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Dow Jones hits fresh record high
2016-12-06 23:26:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a fresh record high as financial stocks continue to rally.
Wall Street hits new record highs
2016-08-11 22:39:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
All three major US indexes hit record highs - the first time they have done so on the same day since 1999 - as oil and retail stocks found favour.
As Americas Largest Reservoir Hits Record Low, a Dam Debate Returns
2016-06-18 22:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NY Mag: Lake Mead, Americas largest reservoir, reached a record low water level this week, breaking the previous record set a year ago. As of Friday night, the depth of the lake, which was formed after the Depression-era Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border, had dropped to 1,074.33 feet, and the Desert Sun reports that officials expect the level to hit 1,071 feet by the end of June. The lakes continuing decline amid 16 years of drought may automatically trigger significant...
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Greenland Hits Record 75°F, Sets Melt Record As Hottest Year
2016-06-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Last Thursday, Greenland`s capital hit 75°F, which was hotter than New York City. This was the highest temperature ever recorded there in June - in a country covered with enough ice to raise sea levels more than 20 feet. It comes hot on the heels of the hottest May on record for the entire globe, according to NASA. As the map above shows, May temperature anomalies in parts of the Arctic and Antarctic were as high as 17°F (9.4°C) above the 1951-1980 average for the month. And this all follows...
The big melt: Arctic sea ice hits record lows
2016-06-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It was a warm spring for Arctic sea ice, with sea ice extents reaching record low levels in January, February, and April. Now, scientists say that May beat previous ice cover low records by a huge amount. Last month, the Arctic averaged twelve million square kilometers of sea ice. The previous record low, set in 2004, was more than half a million square kilometers greater than this years record. In other words, this Mays Arctic ice cover was smaller than the previously set record by an area...
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