Polar regions

• Ed Douglas: Save the snow (Guardian Unlimited)
  Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:40:41 GMT
  The Alps are warmer than for 1,000 years, and mountains are starting to fall down. Ed Douglas visits the resort of Hochfilzen, and finds winter sports adapting to survive.
  

• Natural world stars in sea expedition (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:44:37 GMT
  The Polar Star is anchored off Big Corn Island, Nicaragua. The sea surrounding the ship is sparkling in the early-morning light as if a benevolent sea god had spent the night sprinkling diamonds across its surface.
  

• Global warming: Another natural process (The Times of India)
  Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:53:44 GMT
  A warning about global warming has come out from a section of the scientific community, concerned about its projected implications -- melting of the polar ice caps and a consequent rise of the sea level, among other things.
  

• Sun, Dec 10 2006 (Greenville Herald-Banner)
  Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:17:39 GMT
  Mattie Lou Ivery Allen, 85, of Sulphur Springs died Dec. 6, 2006, at the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Luke Baptist Church with the Rev. Harold Wright officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Luke Cemetery.
  

• The Toiletries, the Concierges, the Spas: For 2007, Conspicuous Luxury Is In (New York Times)
  Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:13:24 GMT
  High-end hotels are raising the bar on in-room amenities, offering stylish alternatives to cookie-cutter minimalism and charging higher and higher prices for a good night?s sleep.
  

• Mon, Dec 11 2006 (Greenville Herald-Banner)
  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:17:14 GMT
  Mattie Lou Ivery Allen, 85, of Sulphur Springs died Dec. 6, 2006, at the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Luke Baptist Church with the Rev. Harold Wright officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Luke Cemetery.
  

• DGAP-News: SolarWorld AG to Support International Rainforest Exhibition (Financial.de)
  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:46:59 GMT
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• Regional nuclear war could devastate large cities and disrupt the global climate (EurekAlert!)
  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:17:15 GMT
  Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as occurred during all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, impacting nearly everyone on Earth.
  

• Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census (Science Daily)
  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:13:37 GMT
  Frontiers of marine knowledge were extended by the Census of Marine Life in 2006, highlights of which include life adapted to brutal conditions around 407ºC fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter, mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar coast, a US school of fish the size of Manhattan Island, and more unfamiliar than
  

• Volcanic Blast Likely Killed And Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur Found In Antarctica (Science Daily)
  Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:14:53 GMT
  Amid 70-mile-an-hour winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, an American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern ocean roughly 70 million years ago.
  

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