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Greenland

Forty years of ice-core records of CO 2

NEWS AND VIEWS 23 March 2020 In 1980, a method was found to determine the amount of carbon dioxide in ancient air trapped in polar ice — providing direct evidence that CO2 is coupled to climate, and affects global temperatures in the past, present and future. Jean-Robert Petit & Jean-Robert…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Antarctica

Measuring ice in a precious place

I’m a geophysicist, and the goal of my research is to understand how ice at the poles of our planet works — how ice sheets flow, melt, grow. To do that, I’m always working on different ways of looking at them.The instrument in this picture is called the Ice Pod,…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Antarctica

Measuring ice in a precious place

I’m a geophysicist, and the goal of my research is to understand how ice at the poles of our planet works — how ice sheets flow, melt, grow. To do that, I’m always working on different ways of looking at them.The instrument in this picture is called the Ice Pod,…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Alibaba

Coronavirus supplies donated by Alibaba’s Jack Ma arrive in Africa

World An Ethiopian Airlines worker transports a consignment of medical donation from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundation to Africa for coronavirus testing, upon arrival at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri 23 Mar 2020 04:20AM(Updated: 23 Mar 2020 08:11AM) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: A first planeload of…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Holocaust

In the end, Holocaust survivor couldn’t outlast virus, becoming Israel’s first COVID-19 fatality

Arie Even had a knack for survival.Arie Even, 88, became the first, and so far only, Israeli to die of COVID-19. (Even family / Handout)As a youth, with the help of his grandfather, he managed to hide out in a countryside basement from the Nazis who slaughtered more than 500,000…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Bushfire

Broken Hill seeks exemption to SA border closure

Updated March 23, 2020 13:55:46 Preparations are being made to impose restrictions on the entry of people into South Australia in what the Premier says is an effective closing of borders, while a doctor on bushfire-affected Kangaroo Island is calling for all tourism to stop. Key points:Anyone entering SA from…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Mecca

In a pandemic, religion can be a balm and a risk

BEIRUT—Down on Earth, the coronavirus outbreak was felling lives, livelihoods and normalcy. A nation-spanning blessing seemed called for. So up went a priest in a small airplane, rumbling overhead at an epidemiologically safe distance from the troubles below, wielding a sacred golden vessel from a cockpit-turned-pulpit.Before his flight over Lebanon,…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Black Thursday

Did Crypto-Miners Crash Bitcoin Price With 51 Days Before The Halving?

Authored by Keith Wareing via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin price has started to show signs of stabilization since the black Thursday selloff two weeks ago, but is this something we can expect to continue? Or is this a dead cat bounce on the way down to lower lows? In today's analysis I’m looking…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Times Square

BTS Vs. Lil Uzi Vert — The Biggest Difference Between The Two Largest No. 1 Albums Of 2020

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 31: BTS performs during the Times Square New Year's Eve 2020 ... Celebration on December 31, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/WireImage,) WireImage, Only three months into 2020, two albums have already established themselves as some of the most popular of…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Impeachment

Key Words: President Trump after hearing of Mitt Romney’s isolation due to coronavirus exposure: ‘Gee, that’s too bad’

Key Words Published: March 22, 2020 at 8:31 p.m. ET Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters. Getty Images Utah Senator Mitt Romney announced on Sunday that he would self-quarantine after fellow Senator Rand Paul announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. What does President Trump think of that? “ ‘Gee,…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Forty years of ice-core records of CO 2

Measuring ice in a precious place

Measuring ice in a precious place

Coronavirus supplies donated by Alibaba’s Jack Ma arrive in Africa

In the end, Holocaust survivor couldn’t outlast virus, becoming Israel’s first COVID-19 fatality

Broken Hill seeks exemption to SA border closure

In a pandemic, religion can be a balm and a risk

Did Crypto-Miners Crash Bitcoin Price With 51 Days Before The Halving?

BTS Vs. Lil Uzi Vert — The Biggest Difference Between The Two Largest No. 1 Albums Of 2020

Key Words: President Trump after hearing of Mitt Romney’s isolation due to coronavirus exposure: ‘Gee, that’s too bad’

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