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Sudden appearance of crater dubbed the Gateway to the Underworld in Siberia
2016-06-04 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It is known as the Gateway to the Underworld by local people who fear to go near the massive crater that suddenly appeared in the frozen heart of Siberia. And they are right to be afraid. For as the permafrost melts, the worlds biggest megaslump is expanding rapidly. Already about a kilometre long and 90m deep, it is widening by up to 20m a year, making walking near its precipitous edges a dangerous pursuit. But Batagaika crater, which first appeared about 25 years ago, is also a sign...
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Underworld Wide Web: Moscow to launch wifi in cemeteries
2015-12-10 23:00:01| Wireless - Topix.net
According to the Moscow city website, every year almost 120,000 people are buried in the city and around 8 million graves. MOSCOW: Residents in Moscow already enjoy free wireless Internet in cafes and on the metro system but now authorities in the city have also decided to bring wifi to a more unusual setting - some of its most storied cemeteries.
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Underworld threat to melting icecap
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Researchers in the US have identified a new reason for the acceleration in the melting of Greenlands icecap - the ice underneath, as it melts and then refreezes, appears to speed up glacial flow. The melt-and-freeze-again cycle is not itself new, as a similar process has been diagnosed under the ice cap of Antarctica. Nor is the process itself necessarily connected with global warming. Such things must always have happened. But Robin Bell, a geophysicist at Columbia Universitys Lamont Doherty...
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Newly Discovered Frozen Underworld Beneath Greenland Speeding its Flow to the Sea
2014-06-16 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Beneath the barren whiteness of Greenland, there lies a mysterious frozen underworld, which through its melting and refreezing process, may be speeding its ice flow to the sea. Using ice-penetrating radar, researchers have discovered ragged blocks of ice as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan at the very bottom of the ice sheet. Scientists said the findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, could deepen their understanding of how the ice sheets of Greenland...
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Frozen underworld discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet
2014-06-15 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientists have discovered a frozen underworld beneath the ice sheet covering northern Greenland. The previously unknown landscape, a vast expanse of warped shapes including some as tall as a Manhattan skyscraper, was found using ice-penetrating radar loaded aboard Nasa survey flights. The findings and the first images of the frozen world more than a mile below the surface of the ice sheet are published on Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists said the findings could deepen...
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