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Weird jet stream behavior could be making Greenlands melting even worse, scientists say

2016-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The vast northern ice sheet of Greenland melts every summer, pooling lakes of meltwater on its surface and losing fleets of icebergs from its finger-like glaciers. Thats not surprising -- its summer -- although in a warming climate, there are reasons to think these melt seasons are getting more intense, pouring more and more freshwater into the ocean. But when a group of scientists looked back at the last summer melt season -- 2015 -- they found something odd and troubling. Specifically,...

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Temperatures warming faster in Arctic, climate change making regions greener: NASA

2016-06-07 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Press Trust of India: According to a NASA study, Arctic regions of North America are getting greener, with almost a third of the land cover looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems, owing to the climate change. With 87,000 images taken from Landsat satellites, converted into data that reflects the amount of healthy vegetation on the ground, the researchers found that western Alaska, Quebec and other regions became greener between 1984 and 2012. The new Landsat study further supports previous work that...

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Huawei: We're Making Another Nexus Device

2016-06-06 22:08:29| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide

"We're doing the Nexus again this year, by the way," a Huawei manager revealed.

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A Tax On Rising Sea Levels Is Making Waves In The San Francisco Bay

2016-06-06 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Fast CoExist: A Tax On Rising Sea Levels Is Making Waves In The San Francisco Bay The regional tax would help all the communities around the Bay lower their risk of flooding by restoring wetlands. Can everyone work together to make it happen? Many cities are woefully unprepared for the rising disaster risk that comes with climate change and sea level rise--by 2050, the growing flood risk alone will threaten 1.3 billion people worldwide. Even cities that have the best intentions to prepare and adapt to these...

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