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New Map of Antarctica Provides Clearest Glimpse of Subglacial Continent
2013-06-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctica's subglacial terrain British scientists have unveiled the most detailed topographical map available yet of Antarctica, a vast dataset that provides a penetrating 3-D view of the frozen continent down to the bedrock level and could offer key insights into how it will respond to climate change. Based on millions of measurements collected over several decades, the British Antarctic Surveys Bedmap2 project illustrates the continent with a level of clarity...
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Al-Yaum in Saudi Arabia Books KBA Continent Extension
2013-05-06 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Al-Yaum Media House recently signed a contract to extend its large KBA Continent at the WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference in Dubai. The newspaper publishing house is located in Saudi Arabia's third-largest city, Dammam. The KBA hybrid press for coldset/heatset production will be extended by two printing towers, two reelstands, additional hot-air dryer and will go live at the end of 2013. Founded around 50 years ago, Al-Yaum is one of the most popular newspapers in Saudi Arabia and the leading ...This story is related to the following:Printing Presses
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Wind Developers Active Across African Continent
2013-05-02 14:18:20| ENR.com: Headline News
Africas emerging wind-energy sector offers stability with a promise to drive the regions economy to double-digit growth by 2030.
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Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future as frozen continent becomes research hub
2013-04-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice -- ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future. They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a baseball bat, from the half-mile-thick ice covering Antarctica's Roosevelt Island. The cores, which may total 150,000 years of snowfall, almost didn't survive the boat ride to...
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Africans move against REDD initiatives in continent
2013-04-08 04:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Premium Times: REDD intiatives have been decried as a form of neo-colonialism. African participants at the World Social Forum in Tunisia have taken a historic decision to launch a No REDD in Africa Network and join the global movement against REDD. Participants from Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Mozambique, Tunisia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania participated in the launch of the network recently. REDD, an acronym for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation;...
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