Daily Grist: GREENLAND , THE CITY BY THE BAY! AND SOUTH KOREA....

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>TODAY'S NEWS

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>Well, Sheet

>Greenland ice sheet is meeeelllting, it's meeelllting!

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>The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate! As in, faster than

>it has since satellite measurements began in 1979, and with 10 percent

>more melting in 2007 than in the previous record year of 2005. Allow

>researcher Konrad Steffen to put it into perspective for you: " The amount

>of ice lost by Greenland over the last year is the equivalent of two times

>all the ice in the Alps, or a layer of water more than one-half mile deep

>covering Washington, D.C. " Yes, we think that qualifies as alarming.

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>sources: Reuters, The Longmont Daily Times-Call

>see also, in Grist: Greenland's melting ice offers new mining

>opportunities, could fuel independence bid

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>Suin' 'Bout the Schlock of the Bay

>San Francisco sues over oil spill, South Korea spill cleanup ongoing

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>The city of San Francisco has sued the owners of the container ship that

>hit the iconic Bay Bridge last month and blackened the bay with 58,000

>gallons of oil. The " wholly avoidable " accident caused " more injury to the

>San Francisco Bay Area than we can yet begin to fathom, " says the suit,

>which seeks damages for costs ranging from overtime pay of employees to

>lost tourism revenue to the deaths of at least 2,200 birds. Crab

>fisherfolk are also negotiating a payout from the ship's owners, as the

>spill caused a two-week shutdown of commercial crab season. In other

>oil-spill updates, cleanup is ongoing over the spill that resulted from

>the collision of a tanker and a barge in the Yellow Sea off of South Korea

>on Friday. As of Monday, less than 10 percent of the oil had been

>recovered, and some 6,325 acres of seafood farms had been destroyed or

>severely damaged.

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>sources: Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press

 

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