Ice Sheet

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Greenland ice sheet close to point of no return, reveals computer model

Interesting Engineering 28 Mar 2023

A new study paints a bleak picture of Greenland's future. .

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Widening of "doomsday glacier's" main ice stream would accelerate ice loss

New Atlas 28 Mar 2023

Thwaites Glacier is regarded as part of the weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that may be vulnerable to collapse or have its outflow speed up enough to significantly contribute to global sea level rises ... It's also possible that the ice stream could, over time, narrow or remain the same width, resulting in greater stability.

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Near failure of Multiplex's critical ice plant prompts repair of $53K

Moosejaw Today 28 Mar 2023

The Moose Jaw Events Centre plans to repair its ice plant this summer after the machine suffered a major failure that nearly wiped out the hockey and curling ice sheets — and those respective seasons ... Moreover, the Multiplex can only make these repairs when the ice plant is offline, so the work will occur in June and July. .

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Nigel Slater’s recipe for almond and lemon shortcakes

The Guardian 28 Mar 2023

... of sifted icing sugar ... Line a baking sheet with a piece of baking parchment.

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‘Terra Nil’ review: a joyous reverse city builder

NME 28 Mar 2023

This might involve finding the right sheet of ice for a new colony of penguins or getting just the right patch of forest for a Brown Bear to call it home ... humidity and temperature to see ivy growing across ruined skyscrapers, or making it cold enough that snow and ice will form.

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Sea levels are rising. Here’s how some communities are adapting.

Sandhills Express 28 Mar 2023

report about climate change, which found it is “unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years.” ... The glaciers are melting and the ice sheets,” Merrifield said while ...

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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return

Science Daily 27 Mar 2023

... gigatons of carbon means permanent loss of nearly the entire ice sheet.

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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study

Phys Dot Org 27 Mar 2023

releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt; about 2500 gigatons of carbon means permanent loss of nearly the entire ice sheet ... They first used simulations with constant temperatures to find equilibrium states of the ice sheet, or points where ice loss equaled ice gain.

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Daily Skate: What are UND's needs in the transfer portal?

Grand Forks Herald 27 Mar 2023

The number of Olympic-sized ice sheets in college hockey is continuing to shrink ... The Wildcats won't go all the way down to an NHL sheet (85 feet wide), though. The ice at Berry Events Center is going to be a hybrid at 94 feet wide ... The Olympic-sized ice sheets became a fad after the U.S ... But since 2000, the trend has reversed back to NHL sheets.

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New research highlights an overlooked accelerant of ice loss from Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier

Phys Dot Org 27 Mar 2023

Modeling ice sheet evolution and global sea level rise over these longer time scales produces dramatic predictions, Suckale said, but also huge barriers to testing against real-world data because scientists have been able to collect so few direct measures of how ice sheets are changing in the face of global warming.

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Report cites Parks-Bell as best complex site

Odessa American 27 Mar 2023

The prices vary upon the number of indoor courts, whether the city includes a 200-meter track and ice rinks, and whether the city includes outdoor fields ... The most expensive indoor complex, at $31.5 million, would include six basketball courts, 12 volleyball courts, a 200-meter temporary track and two sheets of ice.

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Federal government awards $23 million for Prairie Pothole Region

The Daily Republic 27 Mar 2023

EDITOR'S NOTE. This story can be found on South Dakota Searchlight's website ... The region was covered by a thick sheet of ice over 10,000 years ago. As the ice receded, it left behind depressions in the land that filled with water, forming numerous “pothole” wetlands. The money will help with a U.S ... ]]> ....

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Terra Nil: The Kotaku Review

Kotaku 27 Mar 2023

The best part of the Terra Nil experience, though, is that it’s not just a city-builder, it’s a city-dismantler ... ImageTerra Nil. This isn’t just any barren planet, it’s our planet ... LIKED ... But as someone prone to bouts of climate doom every time I read anything about carbon levels and ice sheets, Terra Nil was the ultimate form of video game escapism.

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EDITORIAL: U.N. says action ‘in this decade’ key in curbing global warming　

Asahi News 27 Mar 2023

The global warming crisis is on the verge of becoming irreversible. “The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years,” the U.N ... Glaciers and ice sheets, once melted, would not easily return to their original state even if the temperatures were to peak and drop in the future ... U.N.

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Evgeni Malkin's late goal, Casey DeSmith's stellar play lift Penguins over Capitals

Hastings Tribune 26 Mar 2023

The Penguins' first of four goals came on an odd-man chance ... 28 ... Held scoreless in his previous 41 games this season, Ruhwedel found himself with a wide open sheet of ice after Jason Zucker extended his stick to deflect a loose puck in the former’s direction ... The goal was Ruhwedel’s first since Apr. 23, 2022 against the Detroit Red Wings ... ICE CHIPS ... 18 ... .