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August 09, 2016

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2016
Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds. Camp Century, a U.S. military base built within the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1959, doubled as a top-secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War. When the camp was decommissioned in 1967, its infrastructure and waste were abandoned under the assumption they would be entombed forever by perpetual snowfa ... read more

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NASA Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed - key information in better predicting how the ice sheet will react ... more		Study Maps Hidden Water Pollution in U.S. Coastal Areas Coastal waters and near-shore groundwater supplies along more than a fifth of coastlines in the continental United States are vulnerable to contamination from previously hidden underground transfers ... more		Early snowmelt reduces forests' atmospheric CO2 uptake Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new University of Colorado Boulde ... more
				Fresh look at burials, mass graves, tells a new story of Cahokia A new study challenges earlier interpretations of an important burial mound at Cahokia, a pre-Columbian city in Illinois near present-day St. Louis. The study reveals that a central feature of the m ... more		Smiling baby monkeys and the roots of laughter When human and chimp infants are dozing, they sometimes show facial movements that resemble smiles. These facial expressions - called spontaneous smiles - are considered the evolutionary origin of r ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

Preventing mass extinctions of big mammals will require immediate action Preventing the extinction of gorillas, rhinoceroses, elephants, lions, tigers, wolves, bears and the world's other largest mammals will require bold political action and financial commitments from n ... more		Sunflowers move by the clock It's summertime, and the fields of Yolo County are filled with ranks of sunflowers, dutifully watching the rising sun. At the nearby University of California, Davis, plant biologists have now discov ... more		Collaborative Agreement to Advance Solar Arrays for Satellite Power Systems Diraq progresses to new stage in DARPA drive for practical quantum computers FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena		NASA's New CO2 Sounder Nearly Ready for Prime Time After years of work, a team of NASA scientists and engineers is poised to realize a lifetime goal: building an instrument powerful and accurate enough to gather around-the-clock global atmospheric c ... more
				Hidden, local climate impacts of drought-friendly vegetation To address the recent drought in California, policymakers have created incentives for homeowners to replace existing lawns with drought tolerant vegetation. However, new research from George B ... more		Bioenergy decisions involve wildlife habitat and land use trade-offs New research from North Carolina State University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds that choosing how to meet bioenergy goals means making trade-offs about which wildlife species and ecosy ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

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'Alarming' bleaching of Maldives corals: conservationists Coral reefs in the Maldives are under severe stress after suffering mass bleaching this year as sea temperatures soared, a top conservationist body warned Monday. ... more		Hybridization helps species avoid extinction Some species are more likely to resemble their parents than others. It depends on how genes are passed from generation to generation. ... more		Tourist boom threatens Sri Lanka's golden beaches Tourists have flocked back to Sri Lanka's palm-fringed beaches since a bloody civil war ended in 2009, but environmentalists warn unchecked development means some areas are now so polluted, swimming there is a health hazard. ... more		Mexico hunts for missing after landslides kill 45 Hundreds of soldiers and rescue workers searched for the missing Monday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Earl triggered landslides in central Mexico that killed at least 45 people. ... more

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