Word: northerner
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Temperature increases could destabilize carbon-rich northern peat bogs, resulting in a massive release of carbon and the acceleration of global warming trends, according to a recent Harvard study...
...research disputes a long-standing belief that peat bogs in the northern latitudes were fairly immune to temperature increases because of consistent precipitation patterns in those regions...
...longest-running conflict - has never been closer to a military solution. Since a cease-fire disintegrated in 2005, steady government advances first pushed out the L.T.T.E. from their positions in the island nation's east, then cut off most of the maritime smuggling networks supplying the insurgency in its northern stronghold. The L.T.T.E.'s de facto capital, Kilinochchi, is encircled by troops approaching on three fronts...
...destination of much of Beijing's recyclable scrap is Dongxiaokou village, on the capital's northern outskirts, where 700 families work on sorting and preparing it for a second life. The yards of Dongxiaokou are filled with stacks of old radiators, piles of cardboard, old tires and inner tubes, mounds of glass smashed into tiny shards, nests of tangled rebar and cooking-oil jugs looped together with string. A mountain of plastic bottles more than two stories tall looms over the squat brick buildings where recyclers live and work. "Somewhere in there is a bottle you used," says a woman...
...Admiral Mullen said Monday that he believes sufficient Iraqi forces will be trained by 2012 to assume responsibility for all of Iraq's security. While most of Iraq is now under the control of the Iraqi military, Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul remain under U.S. control. Turning the capital over to Iraqi security forces "will be a big challenge," Mullen said, and "we continue to be in a pretty tough fight up in Mosul...