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SEPT. 23 Bans on Chinese milk products, including candy and ice cream, spread across Asia and Africa...
From 30,000 ft. in the air, the Greenland ice cap seems impregnable, nearly 800 trillion gal. of frozen water locked safely away. But get closer and the cracks begin to emerge. Dancing by helicopter above the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier, near the western coast of Greenland, you can make out veins of the purest blue meltwater running between folds of ice. What you can't see is Jakobshavn's inexorable slide toward the sea at 65 ft. to 115 ft. a day--an alarming rate that has accelerated in recent years. As the glacier nears the coast...
...front line in humanity's battle against climate change. The warming that is easy to dismiss elsewhere is undeniable on this 860,000-sq.-mi. island of fewer than 60,000 people. More and more of Greenland, whose frozen expanses are a living remnant of the last ice age, disappears each year, with as much as 150 billion metric tons of glacier vanishing annually, according to one estimate. If all the ice on Greenland were to melt tomorrow, global sea levels would rise more than 20 ft.--enough to swamp many coastal cities. Though no one thinks that will happen...
...Stacia Gonzales is :-( going to miss Camp Harvard,” remind yourself of the night you asked why anyone would play a game named after the capital of Lebanon or of the afternoon you met your first Harvard girlfriend at the pre-med ice cream info session. Now that’s real gold...
...shoppers in Cambridge. Topaz said the store sells jewelry starting at $40; T-shirts at Looks start at $20. Denise A. Jillson, the director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that as of August, locally-owned and independent stores occupied 78% of the business locations in Harvard Square. Ice cream chain J.P. Licks also opened a store at 1312 Mass. Ave. this summer, welcoming students back to campus last week with a day of free ice cream. —Staff Writer Hee Kwon Seo can be reached at hkseo@fas.harvard.edu...