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...tipping point is," says Mark Serreze, the center's senior research scientist. Trausti Valsson, a professor of environmental planning at the University of Iceland in Reykjav?k, says Arctic warming has become a "self-propelling" process that could leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free in summers by 2040. Even in winter, says Valsson, ice coverage would amount only to what could form in a single season, meaning that "Arctic shipping, with specially built ships, will be easy in all areas during the whole year...
...says, the ice is too thin even in early May. If the warming continues, he fears that the cod population will shift farther north, disturbing the food chain for the ring-necked seal - the natural staple of the polar bears that regularly stalk the hamlet in the winter months...
...some of them in bikinis. Iceland's Valsson sees the Arctic as "the new Mediterranean," with warming temperatures fostering new centers of civilization in Siberia and Arctic Canada. Hammerfest bears witness to some of that: The population is booming, and a sense of hope infuses the economy. But as winter approaches in Resolute and the lowering sky turns dark, Kalluk, the Inuit hunter, suspects that dreams of a new world in the north are overdone. "Whatever else happens," he says, "the sun will still disappear for a good part of the year." The unanswered question is whether that will...
Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston project, said in a telephone interview that the pact reinforces Harvard’s commitment to creating a “very sustainable campus.” He added that the Allston team had considered windmills, winter gardens, and heat extraction from sewers as some strategies to meet the goal...
...Crimson soccer permanently on the map. Throughout the past year Harvard has been showered with accolades, both individual and team-wide. Sophomore Andre Akpan, who established himself as a national contender for the FIFA U-20 team with a hat trick in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament against Haiti last winter, returned to the FIFA scene once again this summer. Akpan made the final cut for the U-20 World Cup team, and helped supply the pressure that caused an own-goal against Uruguay in their Round of Sixteen game. The Grand Prairie native also helped his club team, the Dallas...