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Watch water freeze instantly as it pours
2013-06-14 00:30:40| CNET News.com
Stick water in the freezer and it turns to ice, but a trick allows you to catch it right in the sweet spot so you can watch it freeze instantaneously. [Read more]
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When It Rains, It Pours: Study Confirms Climate Change Will Keep Driving More Intense Precipitation
2013-04-07 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Think Progress: Climate change will bring more and more extreme precipitation events this century. A new study from NOAA`s National Climatic Data Center confirms what climate scientists have long been saying about climate change`s effect on the hydrological cycle. If you are not familiar with this term, you are certainly familiar with what it describes. As the sun warms the earth, water evaporates from oceans, lakes, and rivers, which then form clouds that produce rain and snow. More evaporation happens when...
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Ruptured pipe pours 200,000 gallons of oil into suburban neighborhood
2013-04-04 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last Saturday, an oil pipeline carrying tar sands oil from Canada ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling between 3,500-5,000 barrels of crude (at most 210,000 gallons) into neighborhood streets and lawns. Families from 22 homes have been evacuated while clean-up crews have scrambled to contain the spill. ExxonMobil, which runs the 65-year-old Pegasus pipeline, has stated it will pay for any damage, however critics say the oil spill is more evidence that the Obama Administration should turn down...
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China Pours Cash into Melting Arctic to Win Influence
2013-03-24 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At face value, it is not one of the world's most important relationships. When Norway and China fell out two years ago over a Nobel Prize awarded to a Chinese dissident, the spat had little wider resonance. But diplomatic relations are thawing as quickly as Arctic ice -- and the upshot could be significant for the frigid northern wastes of the planet, which are thought to sit on formidable quantities of mineral reserves. China has been cozying up to Arctic countries as part of its effort to...
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China pours cash into melting Arctic in bid to win influence
2013-03-18 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At face value, it is not one of the world's most important relationships. When Norway and China fell out two years ago over a Nobel prize awarded to a Chinese dissident, the spat had little wider resonance. But diplomatic relations are thawing as quickly as Arctic ice and the upshot could be significant for the frigid northern wastes of the planet, which are thought to sit on formidable quantities of mineral reserves. China has been cosying up to Arctic countries as part of its effort to...