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NOAA Arctic Report Card 2013: Getting Warmer and Greener Up North
2013-12-14 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The Arctic continues to get warmer and greener, even though this summer was cooler than the last, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday with the release of its Arctic Report Card 2013. Cooler temperatures in the summer helped curb the Arctic region's sea ice loss and extensive melting along the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, but there were still regional weather extremes such as record low May snowfall in Eurasia and record high summer temperatures in Alaska. ...
CDC Report Card: Good, Bad Marks On Target Battles
2013-11-21 18:43:15| Biotech - Topix.net
About three years ago, the nation's top public health agency picked its battles.
NOAA report card for 2012's climate: More warming
2013-08-06 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A new massive federal study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and melting Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheets, all broke or nearly broke records, but temperatures only sneaked into the top 10. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday issued a peer-reviewed 260-page report, which agency chief Kathryn Sullivan calls its annual "checking on the pulse of the planet." The report,...
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VIDEO: Shinzo Abe's economic report card
2013-05-16 03:57:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
It is five months since Japan's Shinzo Abe came to power. Economic figures out on Thursday are his first report card, and on the surface things are looking good.
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On Earth Day 2013, a planetary report card on global warming
2013-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: When Earth Day observances first began in 1970, Cleveland had recently doused a pollutant-fueled fire on a section of the Cuyahoga River. Cities were often shrouded in thick blankets of smog. And large portions of Lake Erie were so fouled by industrial, farm, and sewage runoff that sections of the 241-mile-long lake were pronounced dead. As an environmental issue, global warming was far down the list of concerns. At the time, a small number of climate scientists noted a general cooling trend...