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Climate research: Where is the world's permafrost thawing?
2015-09-13 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: This Saturday at a conference in Quebec, Canada an international research team will present the first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (http://gtnp.arcticportal.org/) researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download. This new portal can serve as an early warning system for researchers and decision-makers...
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Thawing permafrost could be the worst climate threat you havent heard of
2015-04-03 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Some things get better when you take them out of the freezer. Ice cream, for example, is unarguably more delicious when it gets a little melt-y. (Unarguably, I say! Come at me, trolls.) But other things get remarkably worse. Take bananas - the next time you whip up a smoothie, leave the frozen banana to defrost on your counter and watch in horror as it turns into a yellowish brown pile of watery mucus. And then theres permafrost: You dont even want to know what happens to that shit when it thaws...
Memphis Airport thawing from ice disruptions
2015-02-17 22:53:00| Air Courier - Topix.net
The Memphis International Airport is transitioning to normal operations after a winter weather system covered much of the Mid-South in ice, causing airlines to cancel 90 flights Monday. Beginning Sunday evening, 75 maintenance and operations crewmembers worked around the clock, ready to deploy four de-icer trucks, 12 snowplows, 10 snow brooms and other equipment in an effort to clear runways.
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Sunlight boosts CO2 from thawing permafrost
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Arctic permafrost holds about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, making its ultimate fate a key factor in the severity and pace of climate change impacts. Now a study reports that old assumptions of how permafrost carbon breaks down in Arctic lakes and rivers may be wrong. Instead of bacteria being responsible for the conversion of carbon into carbon dioxide, the real culprit in many cases is sunlight, according to the research supported by the National Science Foundation. The findings...
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Rapid Arctic thawing could be economic timebomb, scientists say
2014-08-03 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic timebomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a group of economists and polar scientists. Governments and industry have expected the widespread warming of the Arctic region in the past 20 years to be an economic boon, allowing the exploitation of new gas and oilfields and enabling shipping to travel faster between Europe and Asia. But the release of a single giant "pulse" of methane...
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