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Antarctica rising as ice caps melt
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 31st, 2011
New Scientist: ANTARCTICA is rising like a cheese soufflé: slowly but surely. Lost ice due to climate change and left-over momentum from the end of the last big ice age mean the buoyant continent is heaven-bound.
Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and colleagues used 15 years of GPS data to show that parts of the Ellsworth mountains in west Antarctica are rising by around 5 millimetres a year (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2011gl048025). Elsewhere on the continent,...
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Pakistan: Pakistan floods one year on: Your stories
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 31st, 2011
BBC: It's been a year since Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in its history. At least 18 million people were affected, from Swat in the north to Sindh in the south. Across the country there was massive infrastructural damage and individuals struggled simply to find food.
Here BBC News website users speak about how the floods have changed their lives and what more needs to be done.
Things have certainly improved but rehabilitation has been very slow.
When the floods came last year, my two-storey...