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FILTER RESULTS ►Study: warming of Antarctic peninsula due to ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns
From the University of Washington, something we covered earlier in WUWT from the BAS, but UW is now just getting around to press releases. The Antarctic peninsula is essentially a different Koppen climate class than the main continent, and is … Continue reading ?
How North Korea's neighbors are covering Pyongyang's belligerence
What are North Korea's Asian neighbors saying about the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula? Here's a brief look at some of the press coverage in the region that should give you a flavor of how China, Japan, and South Korea are analyzing the standoff. Show More Summary
Press release of the day: We can nuke you
The banality of mass destruction: A press release from the United States Air Force announcing that, oh, by the way, nuclear-capable bombers have been sent to the Korean Peninsula as part of an exercise. And why announce this? Well, just because... Show More Summary
Awakened from its slumber, Russian volcano rumbles
A Russian volcano which started erupting in November continues to spew ash and smoke into the air, The Associated Press reports. The Plosky Tolbachik volcano, in the Kamchatka Peninsula, last erupted in 1976.
The unexpected eruption was named the most significant volcanic event …
Photos: Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pedestrian Bridge Installation Underway!
There's so much happening in Brooklyn Bridge Park lately, and since there's no Brooklyn Heights Patch to report on it, we've got this covered. Yesterday the new Pier 5 fields and picnic peninsula opened, and at the press conference an update was given regarding other projects in progress within the 85-acre waterfront park. Show More Summary
Fire and ice mix as Russian volcano erupts for first time in 36 years
Plosky Tolbachik volcano erupted in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Nov. 29. The volcano, located on the peninsula's eastern coast, is erupting for the first time in 36 years, according to The Associated Press.
Editor's note: The Associated Press made these pi …
Photos: MTA Lifts Trains On Trucks For Special Rockaway Shuttle
The MTA continues its post-Hurricane Sandy pre-Fare Hike freakout good will press tour today with a spectacular set of photos to complement the return of the G train. Rockaway Peninsula? Your subway shuttle cars are coming! [ more ›...
AL QAEDA CALLS FOR MORE EMBASSY ATTACKS
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, considered the most dangerous and active of the terrorist organization’s branches, is calling for more attacks on US Embassies, the Associated Press is reporting. The terrorist organization is also praising the attack on the US Consulate in Libya, as well as the deaths of the ambassador and three others. [...]
Typhoon Bolaven watchers' cars engulfed by giant waves in China
Typhoon Bolaven, the strongest storm to hit South Korea for almost a decade, left a trail of death and damage in parts of the Korean peninsula on Tuesday and crossed into China early on Wednesday, Agence France Presse reports.
Previously on PhotoBlog: Dramatic rescue as typhoon …
Kamchatka Doctors Refuse Abortions on Children’s Day
Doctors working in Kamchatka Peninsula medical establishments on June 1, when the International Children’s Defense Day is celebrated, refused to provide pregnancy termination services, the region’s press service announced.
Hebrew Inscription from Lusitanian/Roman Villa
From a Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena press release: Archaeologists of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of Portugal, close to the city of Silves (Algarve). On a marble plate, measuring 40 by 60 centimetres, the name “Yehiel” [...]
Patch Executive Declares Company the Nation’s ‘Most Significant Media Organization’
Several Bay Area Patch sites received a total of 9 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Awards over the weekend, prompting Chief Content Officer Rachel Feddersen to triumphantly declare via email that Patch.com was “the most significant...Show More Summary
Patch: ‘The most significant media organization’ in the U.S.
Read the full memo after the jump. From: Rachel Feddersen Date: Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Congrats to our winners of the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club awards! To: Felicia Mello Cc: Marcia, Edit West, Janine Iamunno, Jon Brod HUGE congratulations! I am so thrilled by this win. Marcia, as discussed … Read More
Crack in the Antarctic!
From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could be tragic, except, well, sea ice in Antarctica is growing. … Continue reading ?
Mexico tourism adds environmentalists to list of foes
Mexico gets bad press for a number of reasons causing travelers to use extra caution when visiting south of the border. Attractions, like UNESCO biosphere sites along the Baja California Peninsula, draw travelers but a newly thriving...Show More Summary
New to the Civil War Memory Library, 03/02
Glenn David Brasher, The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Thomas J. Brown, ed., Remixing the [...]
North Korean citizens tell AP of skepticism over nuclear deal as North Korea’s military repeated threats of a “merciless sacred war” Against S.Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. Show More Summary
Gunmen kidnap two American tourists in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula
Two female tourists and their Egyptian tour guide Friday were intercepted by gunmen and kidnapped in the Sinai peninsula, the Associated Press reports. Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib, the head of south Sinai security, told the wire service that the gunmen had been driving a pickup truck and a sedan. Show More Summary
Facebook - 'a Harvard company' in the eyes of some Stanford students
By Roseann Cima, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Like so many Silicon Valley technology companies before it, Facebook ? now filing for an initial public offering ? is rich with stories of winners. There's founder...
IPO spurs 'Facebook Effect' in Silicon Valley as employees have big bucks to spend
By Stephanie Soderborg and Liu (Laura) He, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. The excitement was practically palpable yesterday after Facebook filed offering documents for its projected $5 billion IPO. Now the so-called...
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