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Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts

Posted by Chris Schults (Guest Contributor) at 5:29 PM on 14 Jun 2007

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Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts:

OK, so they're not rock stars. But scientists with the British Antarctic Survey will guarantee Al Gore's promise that the Live Earth concerts on July 7 will be performed on all 7 continents.

They'll be performing during the dead of winter at the Rothera Research Station. In fact, it'll be the first time anyone outside the station has heard the indie rock-folk band, Nunatak, play at all. (Nunatak, by the way, is a Greenlandic word that means an exposed summit of a ridge mountain or peak within an ice field or glacier.)

Eski-Emo


How about some Snow Patrol and Arctic Monkeys?

by jabailo at 2:25 AM on 15 Jun 2007

Evolution Moving Faster Than Grist

While Grist Editors mourn how great everything was back in the 18th's Little Ice Age, Nature has been adapting faster to Global Heating than you can say Kee-Yo-Tow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/science/earth/15arctic. ...

Their finding implies that, in the Arctic at least, plants may be able to shift long distances to follow the climate conditions for which they are best adapted as those conditions move under the influence of human-caused global warming, the researchers and some independent experts said.


by jabailo at 11:54 AM on 15 Jun 2007

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