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Holiday Sales Clues Revealed in Summer U.S. Rail-Truck Shipments: EcoPulse

2013-08-16 07:30:45| Logistics - Topix.net

Holiday sales are poised to rise from last year, based on the current volume of goods transported primarily by both truck and rail.

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New Clues to Greenland's Hidden Plumbing

2013-08-15 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: What happens under Greenland's ice sheet, where water, ice and rock meet, is key to predicting how its glaciers will react to global warming. Turns out, beneath the island's mysterious middle, where the ice is thick and the bottom bedrock difficult to reach, meltwater flows through channels and voids that open when flowing ice travels over rough ground, a new study finds. The passageways are spaces between the rock and the overlying ice. The results, based on computer modeling and fieldwork observations...

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Buried in Muck, Clues to Future NYC Drought

2013-08-09 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Desk: Piermont Marsh seems an unlikely place to learn about drought. This warren of narrow streams and muddy, reed-choked embankments clinging to the edge of the Hudson River twenty miles north of Times Square is the domain of crabs, worms, herons, and other water-loving creatures. But as Columbia University climatologist Dorothy Peteet paddles a narrow aluminum canoe deep into the marsh, she insists that buried deep in this black, sulphur-stinking muck are clues that could reveal when, and how badly,...

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Obama climate-change speech to be combed for Keystone clues

2013-06-25 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: With an eye on his legacy, President Barack Obama will unveil Tuesday sweeping plans to help save the planet from runaway global warming by curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. But the toughest climate-change decision soon to cross the President's Oval Office desk - the fate of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline designed to ship Alberta oil-sands crude across America - likely won't even rate a mention. Anti-Keystone XL activists said they will demonstrate at Georgetown University where Mr. Obama is...

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