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Staff at Igloo Lake Lodge stand amid six-foot-tall snowbanks that encompass the Labrador fishing camp on June 13.
Staff at Igloo Lake Lodge stand amid six-foot-tall snowbanks that encompass the Labrador fishing camp on June 13.
Earth Changes
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CLIMATE, EARTH, OCEANS Antarctica has lost about 3 trillion metric tons of ice since 1992 Ice loss is accelerating and that's helped raise the global sea level by about 8 millimeters
BY LAUREL HAMERS 1:23PM, JUNE 13, 2018
Antarctica is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace. In just the last five years, the frozen continent has shed ice nearly three times faster on average than it did over the previous 20 years.
An international team of scientists has combined data from two dozen satellite surveys in the most comprehensive assessment of Antarctica's ice sheet mass yet. The conclusion: The frozen continent lost an estimated 2,720 billion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017, and most of that loss occurred in recent years, particularly in West Antarctica. Before 2012, the continent shed ice at a rate of 76 billion tons each year on average, but from 2012 to 2017, the rate increased to 219 billion tons annually.
Combined, all that water raised the global sea level by an average of 7.6 millimeters, the researchers report in the June 14 Nature. About two-fifths of that rise occurred in the last five years, an increase in severity that is helping scientists understand how the ice sheet is responding to climate change.
"When we place that against the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's] sea level projections, prior to this Antarctica was tracking the low end of sea-level-rise projections," says study coauthor Andrew Shepherd, an earth scientist at the University of Leeds in England. "Now it's tracking the upper end."
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Science Snooze
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Aerial view of a section of Mogok taken in February 2018.
Aerial view of a section of Mogok taken in February 2018.
The incident happened in the ward of Aung Thit Lwin in Kathae village tract in Mogok, said Mogok Township lawmaker U Saw Thaung Tin in the Mandalay regional parliament.
"Three houses on the hillside in Aung Thit Lwin collapsed at around 4 a.m. on Thursday, as it had been raining heavily the whole week," he said.
Family members from two of the houses had been taking shelter at a temporary camp opened at a Chinese temple in the ward when the landslide happened.
Kilauea Volcano lava flow near Kopoho
Liquid from the Porta Potty spilled out of the cabin as the portable plastic toilets swirled in the air.
People were forced to dive for cover after a huge blast of wind whipped through a park in Commerce City, Colorado.
As they attempted to take cover by lying on the ground, the wind whisked two portable toilets straight into the air and flattened a nearby tent.
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Staff at Igloo Lake Lodge stand amid six-foot-tall snowbanks that encompass the Labrador fishing camp on June 13.
Staff at Igloo Lake Lodge stand amid six-foot-tall snowbanks that encompass the Labrador fishing camp on June 13.
Even for Labrador, the amount of snow around Igloo Lake Lodge is surprising.
A little snow, sure, but the banks around the southeastern Labrador fishing camp is wreaking havoc on summer plans.
"It's not uncommon to see snow around the lodge — not six feet, though," says Jim Burton, who operates Igloo Lake Lodge.
The lodge borders Mealy Mountain National Park, about 115 kilometres southeast of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Burton said this is the first time in 50 years he's had to fly in a snowmobile in order to get supplies to the camp and get it ready for the season.
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Police say the German Shepherd mauled the baby in a home on Watts Road in Forest Park.
Family members told Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes that the whole thing is unreal, especially because the dog has been around the baby since she was born.
"I told her I'm so sorry because I always take you with me," mother Terika George said.
"In the past couple of years, there have been quite a few cases of whales washing ashore, including Bryde's whale, blue whale, sperm whale and humpbacks, and many dolphins, turtles too among marine animals,'' said the additional principal chief conservator of forests (mangrove cell) N Vasudevan. He added that it is alarming to document several such beaching of whales, and further study is required to know why it is happening.
Environmentalist D Stalin remarked, "The forest department must start funding a proper research on the causes of such instances of large marine species washing ashore. Besides sea pollution, oil spills, high traffic of cargo vessels, we need scientific evidence on the various factors involved here."
Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro National Park Chief Park Warden, Ms Bertita Loibooki told the 'Daily News' yesterday that the observed snow that accumulated on the mountain's highest peak, plays an important role in protection of glacier from sublimation.
She said many people; including tourists are attracted by the white covered Kibo Peak of the Africa's highest mountain and have been seen coming to take pictures from different possible corners.
"The rains that occurred from January to May brought accumulation of snow on the Kibo Peak.
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