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Melting Glaciers	21.5.2013	Climate Change News - ENN
Most of the world's frozen water is locked up at the poles. 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is located in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Yet the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two major ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost significant mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly 260 billion metric tons of ice annually during the study period, causing the oceans to rise 0.03 inches, or about 0.7 millimeters per year.
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America 10 Years After Sequestration	21.5.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the Environmental Protection Agency is a distant memory. Public education has been cut to the bone, making good schools a luxury and, according to the Department of Education, two of every five students won't graduate from high school. It's 2023—and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. They went on for a decade, making no exception for effective programs vital to America's ...
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?	21.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
Climate Extreme Prediction	21.5.2013	Environmental News Network
It seems that there is always another opinion on how the climate is or will be changing. A new study led by Oxford University concludes that the latest observations of the climate system's response to rising greenhouse gas levels are consistent with conventional estimates of the long-term climate sensitivity, despite a warming pause over the past decade. However, the most extreme rates of warming simulated by the current generation of climate models over 50- to 100-year timescales are looking less likely, according to the paper published online by Nature Geoscience.
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Eat those white vegetables?	21.5.2013	Environmental News Network
We've always been told that eating colorful foods has many health benefits. And no, I'm not talking about artificially colored candies or chips, but instead fresh fruits and vegetables. Many produce rich in color contains nutrient packed pigments and antioxidants that provide energy and other benefits to our bodies. Consequently, it is recommended that we have three to five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. But what about white foods? Some nutritionists urge us to stay away from white bread breads, rice and pastas, but what about white produce? There are potatoes, garlic, onions, mushrooms, cauliflower, onions, turnips and kohlrabi just to name a few. Are these white fruits and vegetables just as nutritious?
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Mattea Kramer: How America Became a Third World Country (Cached)	21.5.2013	BBC-Hindi: India
It's 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect.
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How America Became a Third World Country (2013-2023)	21.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Mattea Kramer Jo Comerford The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. read more
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Big ifs loom over Camden-Glassboro rail plan	21.5.2013	Philly.com News
Passenger trains could be running again between Camden and Glassboro by 2019, if someone comes up with $1.6 billion and the current construction schedule doesn't slip.
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Melting Glaciers	21.5.2013	Environmental News Network
Most of the world's frozen water is locked up at the poles. 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is located in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Yet the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two major ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost significant mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly 260 billion metric tons of ice annually during the study period, causing the oceans to rise 0.03 inches, or about 0.7 millimeters per year.
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Getting to One-Planet Living	21.5.2013	Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute"s State of the World 2013 explores new ways to measure sustainability and live within our planet"s boundaries Washington, D.C. —As the world continues down the path of unmitigated and unsustainable development, it is becoming increasingly clear that we have successfully pushed ourselves out of the stable geological era of the Holocene and into the more volatile and unpredictable Anthropocene. Nevertheless, many remain blissfully unaware of this truth due to the fact that ecosystem thresholds are not always marked with warning signs of impending danger. Unfortunately, this means that we may actually pass through a tipping point unaware because it is quite possible that nothing significant will happen at first. In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? , the Worldwatch Institute ( www.worldwatch.org ) discusses the need to collectively stay within our planetary boundaries if we wish to achieve environmental sustainability and return ...
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Headlines for May 21, 2013	21.5.2013	Democracy Now!
Dozens Dead in Oklahoma Tornado, Guatemalan Court Overturns Genocide Verdict for Ex-Dictator Ríos Montt, Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested at Justice Department Protest for Bank Prosecutions, Report: Banks Lagging on Settlement Payments for Mortgage Wrongdoing, Report: CIA to Transfer Drone Program to Pentagon, White House Defends Tracking of Fox News Reporter, Obama Hosts Burmese Leader at White House, Survey: Scientists Have 97% Consensus Human Activity Causes Climate Change, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Begins at U.N., Poverty in U.S. Suburbs Exceeds Urban Areas, Senate Report Says Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes, Protest Against School Closings Leads to Arrests at Chicago City Hall, Landmark "Stop and Frisk" Trial Concludes in NYC, Hundreds Honor Gay New Yorker Shot Dead in Apparent Hate Crime
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Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared	21.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Popular
Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
California: Treatments for prostate and breast cancer vary widely, depending on where people live, new study shows	21.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
Variation in surgery rates may indicate patients don't participate enough in decision-making, researchers say.
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Spring comes sooner to Phila. - and that's not good	21.5.2013	Philly.com News
One in an occasional series about the regional effects of climate change and how we're coping. On May 2, 1908, as he strolled along the Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Bayard Long collected a flowering sprig of redbud.
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How The Great Firewall of China Shapes Surfing Habits in China	21.5.2013	Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories
Can cultural factors be more important than censorship in shaping Chinese surfing habits? Two researchers argue that a new study of the way global websites cluster together supports this idea
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Climate Change-Related Heat Deaths To Spike In New York City, Study Projects	21.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
From Climate Central's Andrew Freedman: An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat...
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Patty Murray in 19 Takes	21.5.2013	American Prospect
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster No. 1: The Fixer Patty Murray may be the dullest, most unremarkable member of the United States Senate. Two decades in, she lacks any major legislation to her name, isn’t associated with an issue, rarely appears on television, almost always speaks in gray generalities, and seems to have spent the bulk of her time focused on sending earmarks back to Washington state. As one staffer puts it, the most interesting thing about Murray is how uninteresting she is. She’s also the most important politician you’ve never heard of. As conference secretary, she’s the fourth-ranking Democrat in the Senate, which makes her the highest-ranking woman in the chamber. Last year, she chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), spearheading the party’s surprising string of victories in the November elections. Thanks to her efforts, the Senate now has 20 women, the most ever. And as chair of the powerful Budget Committee, she is going up against Paul ...
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?	21.5.2013	Seattle Times: Business & Technology
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
Chicago police arrest two dozen at school closing protest	21.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
By Renita D. Young CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police arrested about two dozen people on Monday who were protesting against the planned closure of 54 schools in the country's third-largest school district, ahead of a planned Wednesday vote on the matter. The protests at City Hall were the culmination of three days of marches and protests against the closures, which if approved by the Chicago Board of Education could be the largest mass closing in the nation. Protesters were blocking elevators at City Hall in the main floor lobby before they were led away by police. ...
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UTA planning new SLCC express bus route	21.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Dan Harrie The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 04:02PM MDT The Utah Transit Authority has scheduled a public hearing Tuesday evening on a planned express bus route between Murray city and the Taylorsville campus of Salt Lake Community College. UTA has completed a draft environmental study report on the $33 million project, a 4.4-mile route that would include 1.5 miles of dedicated bus lane in the center of 4700 South, replacing the existing median, and eight stations. The environmental study concluded that there would be no significant environmental imp... ...
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