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Is the Frozen-Food Industry Thawing Out?
2014-07-08 12:23:03| Food - Topix.net
Over the last several years, U.S. sales of frozen meals leveled off and began a slow decline.
Alaska is Rapidly Thawing, US Experts Warn
2014-05-07 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Alaska has been subject to increasing evidence of global climate change. According to a recent report from the Unites States Global Change Research Program, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the US, resulting in shrinking glaciers, thawing permafrost and a disappearing sea ice. Being so close to the polar region - where the effects of global climate change are most apparent - allows Alaska to serve as the nation's first warning system for increasing changes. According...
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Permafrost thawing could accelerate global warming
2014-04-08 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via plants, which could accelerate warming trends. The research is featured in the newest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We've known for a while now that permafrost is thawing," said Suzanne Hodgkins, the lead author on the paper and a doctoral student in chemical oceanography at Florida...
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Thawing Arctic releases more carbon than it absorbs
2014-03-25 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The benefits of an Arctic region that stays greener for longer because of warming temperatures are not sufficient to offset the carbon released by the thawing permafrost, scientists have found. As the Arctic climate warms at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, the regions growing season is lasting longer each year. This means that plant growth is increasing, meaning that more of the greenhouse gas carbon is absorbed out of the atmosphere. However, new research from the Woods Hole Research...
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The Upside To Thawing Permafrost Is...Nothing, It's Bad
2014-03-21 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: Every dark cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining for a thawing permafrost is...still a dark cloud. The climate is warming in the Arctic at twice the rate of the rest of the globe. That has led to a longer growing season and increased plant growth, which captures atmospheric carbon - that is good - but it is thawing the permafrost, which releases carbon into the atmosphere. Permafrost contains three to seven times the amount of carbon sequestered in tropical forests. A thawing permafrost...
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