Arctic Reptiles Had Warm Climate During Eocene Period | Climate Change & Global Warming, Arctic Animals | LiveScience

How did cold-blooded alligators and giant tortoises once thrive well above the Arctic Circle?

It turns out the climate in some Arctic locales sometimes never dipped below freezing some 50 million years ago, scientists now reveal.
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"We go up in July each year, which is usually the most pleasant month in the Arctic, but even on a really nice year like this year, we still lost a day to weather, with a helicopter stuck in the snow," researcher Jaelyn Eberle, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told LiveScience. The scientists always have to keep a shotgun with them, she noted, to ward off polar bears.

Steelworkers Accuse China of Unfair Trade Practices in Clean Technologies - NYTimes.com

The largest American industrial union is accusing China of using unfair trade practices to create jobs in its clean energy technology sector and get a permanent edge on U.S. manufacturers.

The United Steelworkers yesterday filed a 5,000-page complaint with the U.S. Trade Representative that asserts China aims to control the global clean energy market at the expense of U.S. jobs.