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Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of loss
2015-03-03 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] It's no surprise that Arctic sea ice is thinning. What is new is just how long, how steadily, and how much it has declined. University of Washington researchers compiled modern and historic measurements to get a full picture of how Arctic sea ice thickness has changed. The results, published this month in The Cryosphere, show a thinning in the central Arctic Ocean of 65 percent between 1975 and 2012. September ice thickness, when the ice cover is at a minim…
Montana coal seam fire is out after smoldering for decades
2015-03-03 04:56:34| Waste Management - Topix.net
Bill Snoddy with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality says the Settler's Stripping Coal Fire is out and reclamation work on the Treasure County site is underway. The Great Falls Tribune reports that Snoddy said the fire burned for as long as 70 years after a lightning strike hit an exposed section of the 15-foot-thick seam.
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NASA Researchers forecast decades long mega-drought to hit Southwest of the US
2015-02-14 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Westside Story: A decades-long mega-droughts is likely to hit the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains regions during the second half of this century, if climate change issues go unattended forecasts researchers from NASA, Columbia and Cornell universities. The study findings are published in the journal Science Advances. The new forecast is based on models of continued climate change and considers the lagging pace of many countries in mitigating the output of greenhouse gases. The study findings reveal that there...
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Largest oil workers strike in decades expands
2015-02-10 05:00:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The oil workers strike widened over the weekend , with 1,400 workers at two BP refineries in Indiana and Ohio walking out: The first nationwide strike by oil refinery workers since 1980, the addition of BP's Whiting, Indiana, refinery and the company's joint-venture refinery with Husky Energy in Toledo, Ohio, brings the total number of plants with strikers to 11, including refineries accounting for about 13 percent of total U.S. oil refining capacity. The original strike included workers in California, Kentucky, Texas and Washington.
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KYOCERA Solar Enables Municipal Buildings In Parker, AZ To Stabilize Electricity Costs For Decades
2015-02-10 03:47:39| publicworks Home Page
Kyocera Solar Inc. and the town of Parker, AZ, recently commissioned a 175-kilowatt (kW) solar energy project
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