Antarctic Icebergs Act As Hotspots Of Ocean Life and Tornadoes in...

[redjade]

Some articles I found:

Tornadoes Rip Through Parts Of Western Canada

Eight tornadoes touched down in Canada's vast western plains this weekend, blowing vehicles off a main road, and destroying homes, farms, a fire hall and a flour mill, officials said Sunday. There were, however, no reports of serious injuries. "We've had at least eight tornadoes in the last two days in Manitoba (province), and this is only the beginning of the severe weather season, so I expect we're going to have an active year," Dan Kulak, warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment Canada, told AFP.

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Antarctic Icebergs Act As Hotspots Of Ocean Life

Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea. According to a new study in this week's journal Science these floating islands of ice - some as large as a dozen miles across - are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them, serving as "hotspots" for ocean life, with thriving communities of seabirds above and a web of phytoplankton, krill, and fish below.

 

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Russia Can Claim Lots More Of The Arctic

Russia can claim an additional 1.2 million square kilometers (0.46 million square miles) outside its economic zone in the Arctic, an area with expected hydrocarbon reserves of about 10 billion tons of fuel equivalent, the director of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. "I am talking about Russia being able to claim territory outside its economic zone," Valery Kaminsky said.

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Algae Choking Another Major Chinese Lake:

A massive algae bloom has spread out over another of China's big lakes, a press report said Monday, despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on years of clean up efforts. "In recent days, due to the hot and humid weather, a large amount of algae has bloomed in Dianchi Lake, turning the water as green as paint in a stretch along the shore near Kunming city," the Oriental Daily reported.

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Colorado Study Shows Desert Droughts Lead To Earlier Annual Mountain Snow Loss

A new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center indicates wind-blown dust from drought-stricken and disturbed lands in the Southwest can shorten the duration of mountain snow cover hundreds of miles away in the Colorado mountains by roughly a month.

 

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The Challenge Of Desertification

Climate change manifests itself in many ways in different parts of the globe. While flooding is the fear of small island states and seaside communities in several parts of the globe, it is desertification in many other regions, fertile fields transformed into "drylands," threatening international stability.

Desertification has been dubbed "the greatest environmental challenge of our times."


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Australian Drought Turns To Flood As California Dries Out

As severe water restrictions take effect in Australia's major agricultural area, experts say there are signs the country's worst drought in a century may finally be coming to an end. Torrential rain last week flooded parts of Victoria state, just weeks after a deluge hit New South Wales and left nine people dead.


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60 Feared Killed As Landslide Engulfs Bus In Mexico

Rescuers pulled more bodies, including children, on Thursday from the wreckage of a bus swallowed by a landslide in Mexico which may have killed up to 60 people, local authorities said. Emergency workers, who spent the night digging up the bus with the help of the army, said they had recovered a total 14 bodies at the site of the accident in the central state of Puebla. They earlier expressed little hope of recovering any survivors among the bus's passengers.


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Western US States Swelter Under Record Heatwave

A ferocious heatwave that has gripped the western United States was expected to continue on Friday, with sizzling record temperatures forecast across the sun-baked region. Although temperatures cooled in California early Friday as a high pressure weather system lifted, excessive heat warnings remained in place across large swathes of the state and neighboring Nevada and Arizona. "The high pressure system that has been stubbornly parked over southern California is on a weakening trend, allowing temperatures to cool down to seasonable temperatures," meteorologist Jamie Meier said.

 

[anart]

They are on SotT - here http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135965-Dozens+die+as+landslide+swallows+bus+in+Mexico and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135908-60+feared+killed+as+landslide+engulfs+bus+in+Mexico

and the heat wave and wildfires are covered as well - just in case you missed them. http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136061-U.S.%3A+Heat+Wave+Fuels+Western+Wildfires and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135894-Vegas+sizzles+under+%22dangerously+hot%22+conditions and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136158-Dozens+of+wildfires+ravage+West and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136167-California+has+driest+%27rainy+season%27+on+record (though we may have just grabbed that one from your post, not sure...)

With how quickly articles go up, it can be really easy to miss them as they move off the front page - but that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep checking and letting us know when you find something we don't have - because we want it all!

=)

 

[vinny]

heh! actually, yeah anart was right. one of them I copied from your post, redjade, onto SOTT. so you were ahead of the game ;)

all good stuff. keep 'em coming!

 

[redjade]

They are on SotT - here http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135965-Dozens+die+as+landslide+swallows+bus+in+Mexico and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135908-60+feared+killed+as+landslide+engulfs+bus+in+Mexico

and the heat wave and wildfires are covered as well - just in case you missed them. http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136061-U.S.%3A+Heat+Wave+Fuels+Western+Wildfires and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/135894-Vegas+sizzles+under+%22dangerously+hot%22+conditions and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136158-Dozens+of+wildfires+ravage+West and
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/136167-California+has+driest+%27rainy+season%27+on+record (though we may have just grabbed that one from your post, not sure...)

With how quickly articles go up, it can be really easy to miss them as they move off the front page - but that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep checking and letting us know when you find something we don't have - because we want it all!

=)

heh! actually, yeah anart was right. one of them I copied from your post, redjade, onto SOTT. so you were ahead of the game ;)

all good stuff. keep 'em coming!

Will do. :)