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Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age College Park MD (SPX) May 11, 2009
An international team of geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice age may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth. Scientists from the University of Maryland, including post-doctoral fellows Boswell Wing and San ... read moreSouthern Glaciers Grow Out Of Step With North
New York NY (SPX) May 04, 2009The vast majority of the world's glaciers are retreating as the planet gets warmer. But a few, including ones south of the equator, in South America and New Zealand, are inching forward. A new study in the journal Science puts this enigma in perspective; for the last 7,000 years New Zealand's largest glaciers have often moved out of step with glaciers in the northern hemisphere, pointing ... more
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Blizzard dumps snow on flooded North Dakota
Fargo, North Dakota (AFP) March 25, 2009A heavy blizzard dumped wet snow on volunteers rushing to fill sandbags and build temporary dikes to hold off rising flood waters in North Dakota Wednesday as officials prepared to use explosives to break up ice jams on swelling rivers. President Barack Obama issued a federal disaster declaration for 34 counties and two Indian reservations and the entire state was under a major flood warning ... more Winter strikes back in late eastern US storm
New York (AFP) March 2, 2009Late-season snow and high winds punched through the eastern United States Monday, killing at least five people as the freeze snapped power lines, closed schools and snarled air and road traffic. More than one foot (30 centimeters) of snow fell in parts of the northeastern states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the National Weather Service said, as the storm swept toward Cana ... more Briton calls friends on mobile while in avalanche: report
Vienna (AFP) Feb 24, 2009A 26-year-old Briton talked to friends on his mobile phone as he was being buried in an avalanche in western Austria Tuesday, the Austria Press Agency reported. The young man, who survived unscathed, got lost while skiing near St. Anton, in western Tyrol, and was phoning friends skiing in the same area when he was partially buried under the mass of snow, APA said. He was still able to ... more Body recovered after Catholic sect group hit by Swiss avalanche
Geneva (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The body of a French seminarist in an ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholic sect swept away in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps has been found, a group official said Thursday. "The body of the seminarist, from the Paris region, was found a few hours ago," a spokesman for the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X said. The search for the last still missing group member, from Caen in northern ... more |
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Western Europe braces for heavy snowfalls
London (AFP) Feb 1, 2009Forecasters warned of widespread snowfalls that would disrupt land and air travel in Western Europe on Monday, with Britain expected to see "more snow than in recent years". As a cold front sweeps through Britain, the weather service said London and southeast England could see five to 10 centimetres (two to four inches) of snow and as much as 15 centimetres of snowfall elsewhere. ... more Deadly ice and snow storm cut swath across US
Chicago (AFP) Jan 28, 2009Hundreds of thousands of people were left shivering in the dark after a massive ice and snow storm cut a swath across the United States Wednesday, knocking down power lines, snarling traffic, grounding flights and forcing schools to close. Freezing rain on the southern end of the storm covered trees and bridges with brilliant ice crystals but made roads incredibly slick and dangerous from ... more UAE mountain covered in rare snow
Dubai (AFP) Jan 25, 2009A blanket of snow has covered a mountain in a part of the United Arab Emirates, a rare phenomenon for the desert Gulf country, local media reported on Sunday. Al-Jees mountain, 5,700 feet (1,737 metres) above sea level and 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Ras al-Khaimah city, was covered in 20 centimetres (eight inches) of snow, the state news agency WAM said. "Although limited snow ... more Avalanche Kills 10 In Turkey And 7 In French Alps
Ankara (AFP) Jan 25, 2009An avalanche in northeastern Turkey engulfed and killed 10 people Sunday with seven others from the group making a miraculous escape, Anatolia news agency reported. Earlier reports had raised the death toll to 11 upon news that one of the rescued could not be revived at hospital. Prosecutor Abidin Bozkan later revised the toll down to 10, saying that there had been a mix-up over names, Anato ... more |
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