Man charged in deadly Haitian boat accident

A Haitian man was charged with human smuggling Monday after federal authorities accused him of piloting a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized off Florida's coast, killing at least nine people, including a pregnant woman.

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Oceans Eyed As New Energy Source

Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current — the mighty Gulf Stream — rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion gallons per second. And it never stops.

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Doubt Over Climate Change Forecasts

From the deck of a research ship moored in these gusty north Atlantic islands, workers are offloading three bright orange buoys whose sonar devices will help Bogi Hansen fill more gaps in an intriguing twist on climate change forecasts.

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The consequencesof Global Warming will be an Ice Age,

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.....Combining high-resolution satellite data with water analyses, they discovered a pattern of airflow that reaches seven miles (10 kilometers) high, well into the upper part of the troposphere, the lowest and most massive layer of Earth's atmosphere.....

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The Arctic: An Icy Parable

This article was written by Atticus Mullikin as an epilogue for a dossier on the website EU4Journalists.eu. It is republished here by Atticus Mullikin with permission.

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It was the biggest climate event of the last 10,000 years and caused the most dramatic change in the weather since humans began farming. And it may yet hold important lessons about climate change in the 21st century.

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In Washington recently, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne made an announcement that clears the way for a new and largely untapped renewable energy resource — the oceans.

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Did an extraterrestrial impact set off a catastrophic chain of events that led indirectly to the dawn of agriculture in the Middle East nearly 13,000 years ago?

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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an undersea mountain range that crosses the centre of the Atlantic, is one of the most turbulent places on Earth.

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Fossilised midges have helped scientists at the University of Liverpool identify two episodes of abrupt climate change that suggest the UK climate is not as stable as previously thought.

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The magnitude of possible climate change in the future will depend to a large degree on the response of ocean circulation to global warming, as the ocean currents distribute an immense quantity of heat around our planet and, besides, determine levels of humidity and energy.

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All Things Considered, March 1, 2007 · It's a tale of two hurricanes. Katrina and Rita were both massive storms as they churned along a similar path through the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. But Katrina remained strong as it approached land while Rita faded.

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Antarctic ice-drilling reveals linked cycle of warming and cooling. Researchers trying to understand sudden, seesawing changes in the Arctic's prehistoric climate have found some answers in an unusual place: buried in the Antarctic ice, half a world away.

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This article is an overview of the Stern Review. Links to other articles on the report.

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