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How to deal with toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
2016-08-05 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political. Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly. Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland...
Roman scrolls, long buried by Vesuvius, reveal their secrets
2016-03-23 18:55:10| Extremetech
New research into the priceless papyri library recovered from Herculaneum has revealed that some scrolls were written with metal-based ink rather than the traditional carbon inks used in antiquity. This discovery both rewrites the ancient history of writing and could help scientists recover the writings preserved on the fragile scrolls.
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Ontario carbon cap buried in the fine print
2016-02-26 14:09:10| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The Ontario government has set out the cap on carbon emissions permitted over the next five years as it brings in legislation to combat climate change. Buried in the fine print of the new legislation, released Thursday, Ontario has limited greenhouse gas emission allowances at 142.2 million metric tonnes in 2017, reducing it by 4.2 per cent each year until it hits 124.6 million metric tonnes by 2020. The province is bringing in the cap-and-trade program on Jan. 1, 2017, which will create limited...
Monitoring Thermal Dispersion of Buried Cables
2016-01-27 11:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Universal 8-Channel Datalogger Logs Several Values CHESTERLAND, OH Recently CAS DataLoggers configured a continual monitoring system to record thermal dispersion of medium-voltage buried cables using an OMNIAlog data logger from Next Industries. This system has been configured to log temperatures, soil...
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New Mexico couple buried in snow for 20 hours
2015-12-30 02:31:16| Agriculture - Topix.net
Jimmy and Betty Anderson were supposed to deliver the news last weekend. Instead, the married couple from New Mexico became the story after they were stuck in a 12-foot snowdrift for a staggering 20 hours.
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