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L.A. Times Takes A Bath In Dirty Water With Icelandic Bottled H20 Scam

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I’ve been seeing the b t full page ads for Icelandic Glacial water in the print edition of the Los Angeles Times for months now and every time I do they p**s me off. . Times hadn’t delivered an actual bottle of this snake oil water right along with my newspaper last week. .

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Researchers confirm existence of North Icelandic Jet current; implications for ocean response to climate change

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An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. Credit: WHOI. Click to enlarge.

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

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The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. Climeworks’ new facility in Iceland transports the CO 2 filtered out of the air below the Earth’s surface, where natural processes then mineralize it.

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A Girls’ Trip to Costa Rica. But With No Phones, Did It Happen?

Baua Electric

We didn’t text photos to friends and family in far colder climates back home. She added that FTLO’s phone-free trips this year, which start at $1,699 and also head to Iceland, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico, are in strong demand. But we didn’t capture any of this on our phones. No Instagram stories were posted of the fun being had.

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It Just Got Easier to Visit a Vanishing Glacier. Is That a Good Thing?

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It’s a question that many travelers are asking themselves, as climate change threatens a growing number of tourist destinations — from glaciers to coral reefs, ski slopes to low-lying islands. When you go to Iceland, people walk for an hour to get to the glacier. There’s big machinery being installed. Where will it stop?”

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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The projects span the globe and the unexplored branches of the tree of life, and promise to yield a better understanding of the interplay between climate, ecosystem and organism. University of Iceland. These selections truly take advantage of the DOE JGI’s massive-scale sequencing and data analysis capabilities. Affiliation.

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Travel 2025: ‘Friend-Finding Tours,’ Private Islands and a Mixed Bag of Prices

Baua Electric

MSCs largest ship, the World America, will begin sailing out of Miami in April with a family-oriented district packed with water slides, a ropes course, bumper cars, roller rinks and an over-the-water swing. For those hoping to avoid soaring temperatures, openings in cooler climates also offer seclusion.

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