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Oil drilling wastes, long buried under Canada's permafrost, leak into environment
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For decades, companies exploring for oil and gas in the Arctic's remote southern reaches have disposed of their drilling waste in the cheapest and most convenient way possible: by digging massive pits to hold the waste and then capping them with frozen permafrost. And for decades, the waste harmlessly sat in the frozen tombs. Then climate change, which scientists say is caused by burning fossil fuels, set in, causing the permafrost to begin melting. A "sump" of oil drilling mud, supposedly...
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Survivor of 150 years of turmoil faces being buried by Abenomics
2013-10-22 07:42:38| Automakers - Topix.net
Aiba is president of Togo Seisakusyo Corp., a Japanese maker of industrial springs that traces its roots back more than 150 years to when Jyouuemon Aiba began repairing farm equipment among the rice fields of Chita peninsula 270 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.
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Hansen: Ruins of Omaha gangster underworld buried beneath Union Pacific
2013-09-22 20:56:51| Railroads - Topix.net
Omaha's notorious Bell Hotel was a magnet for gangsters, card sharks, bookies and prostitutes until it was shut down in March 1955.
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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,...
Android 4.3's New 'Always-On' Wi-Fi Feature Buried in Settings
2013-08-03 21:33:35| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
Google's new "your Wi-Fi is on, even when it isn't" setting for Android 4.3 isn't itself likely enabled by default on your device. Here's how you can check!
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