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Study: Ice sheets melting, sea level rising faster than previously thought

Brian Vastag — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:24:50 GMT

The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than previously thought, and that melting is accelerating, according to a new report that verifies 18 years of melting via two independent techniques.

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Study: Ice sheets melting, sea level rising faster than previously thought

Brian Vastag — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:24:50 GMT

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EPA: Proposed House budget cuts would harm public health

Darryl Fears — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:49:46 GMT

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson told a Senate committee Wednesday that a proposal to cut a third of the agency's budget would gut a plan to reduce carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act and undermine efforts to limit water pollution in areas such as the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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EPA says proposed budget cuts would jeopardize plans to protect public health

Darryl Fears — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:00:24 GMT

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson told a Senate committee Wednesday that a proposal to cut a third of the agency’s budget would gut a plan to reduce carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act and undermine efforts to limit water pollution in areas such as the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Report: Peer into the 'deep past' to divine future warming

Brian Vastag — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:45:53 GMT

To move ahead, sometimes you have to look backwards.

That's the message of a new report from the National Research Council that pushes for more science on the wrenching changes that wracked Earth's climate during our planet's "deep history."

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Report: Peer into the 'deep past' to divine future warming

Brian Vastag — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:45:53 GMT

To move ahead, sometimes you have to look backwards.

That's the message of a new report from the National Research Council that pushes for more science on the wrenching changes that wracked Earth's climate during our planet's "deep history."

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