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Model Shows Polar Ice Caps Can Recover From Warmer Climate-induced Melting
A growing body of recent research indicates that, in Earth’s warming climate, there is no “tipping point,” or threshold warm temperature, beyond which polar sea ice cannot recover if temperatures come back down. New University of Washington...
Russia to Open Its First Ice Hotel in the Arkhangelsk Region on Valentine’s Day
150 builders, ice sculptors and architects will carve Russia’s first ice hotel to be opened in the Arkhangelsk Region in the country’s north on February 14, the organizers have said. The hotel, which is to be sculpted from 3,000 cubic meters...
Atlanta Federal Jury Charges Couple with Human Trafficking for Exploiting Woman From Swaziland
A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted an Ellenwood, Ga., husband and wife, Juna Gwendolyn Babb, 54, and Michael J. Babb, 53, on charges of conspiracy, forced labor, document servitude, which is confiscating someone’s passport and visa, and...
Mexican Citizen Sentenced for Participation in Running a New York Sexual Slavery Ring
Consuelo Carreto Valencia, a member of the Carreto family sex trafficking ring that operated between Mexico and Queens, N.Y., has been sentenced to 121 months in prison for benefitting financially from her participation in the organization, which transported...
Enough Chemicals to Make $297 Million of ICE Seized in Australia
An operation involving Customs, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the NSW Crime Commission (NSWCC) has prevented the supply of enough illegal chemicals to make methyl amphetamine (ICE) with an estimated street value of $297 million and led to the...
NASA Says Phoenix Spacecraft May have Landed on Ice
According to NASA, new images received from the Phoenix lander on Mars shows a possible layer of ice on its landing site. Scientists received the images on Friday May 30 from the craft’s robotic arm camera. The image was taken on the fifth Martian...
