News tagged with arctic circle
Report: Facebook plans huge server farm in Sweden
Facebook plans to build a large server farm in northern Sweden near the Arctic Circle, taking advantage of the chilly climate to keep its equipment cool, a Swedish newspaper reported Wednesday
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Trucks lose, ships win in warmer Arctic
Global warming will have a devastating effect on roads in the Arctic but open up tantalising routes for shipping, according to a study published on Sunday in the specialist journal Nature Climate Change.
May 29, 2011 |
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Russian site may show late Neanderthal refuge
Who's better at teaching difficult physics to a class of more than 250 college students: the highly rated veteran professor using time-tested lecturing, or the inexperienced graduate students interacting ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 12, 2011 |
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High Arctic avian athlete gives lessons about animal welfare
Researchers report that an arctic relative of the grouse has evolved to cope with its extreme environment by moving efficiently at high speeds or when carrying winter weight. This discovery is of relevance ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Earth Hour dilemma: When the 'like' button harms the planet
Green groups around the world are turning to social networking to drive their campaign for Earth Hour on Saturday, when lights are turned off for an hour to signal concern about global warming.
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Thawing tundra a new climate threat
(PhysOrg.com) -- A significant source of greenhouse gases has started leaking into the Earth's atmosphere from an unlikely place. Above the Arctic Circle, land frozen for tens of thousands of years has begun ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Swedish town eyes digital age with Arctic data centre
Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes that a massive data centre for US social networking giant Facebook will launch the vibrant industrial region into the digital age as a European ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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Arctic chill brings Facebook data center to Sweden
(AP) -- Facebook will build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle - its first outside the U.S. - that will improve performance for European users of the social networking site, officials said ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Hong Kong drops plan to import rare whales
A Hong Kong theme park has dropped a contentious plan to buy and import rare wild-caught beluga whales, in a decision lauded Friday by conservationists who had protested against the bid.
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Polar climate change may lead to ecological change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ice and frozen ground at the North and South Poles are affected by climate change induced warming, but the consequences of thawing at each pole differ due to the geography and geology, according to a Penn ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Geomagnetic storm subsiding
A geomagnetic storm that sparked auroras around the Arctic Circle and sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the United States on April 12, 2011 is subsiding. NOAA forecasters estimate ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Birds vanishing in the Philippines
The number of birds flying south to important wintering grounds in the Philippines has fallen sharply this year, with experts saying the dramatic demise of wetlands and hunting are to blame.
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Being good moms couldn't save the woolly mammoth (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of Western Ontario leads investigators to believe that woolly mammoths living north of the Arctic Circle during the Pleistocene Epoch (approx. 150,000 to 40,000 years ago) ...
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Dec 21, 2010 |
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas
Parts of the Arctic have cooled clearly over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990 also there. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2010 |
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New ash studies needed to 'limit air traffic chaos'
Better research models of how ash is dispersed would greatly reduce the air traffic havoc wreaked in Europe since an Icelandic volcano began spewing a giant cloud of the toxic dust last week, an expert said ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 18, 2010 |
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