Park Rapids hits record low of 33 | Park Rapids, Minnesota

Wednesday morning many locations in northern Minnesota dropped into the lower 30s. Hallock fell to the state low with a reading of 32 degrees. Park Rapids dipped to 33 degrees. That was a record low for Park Rapids as the old record was 36 degrees set-in 1966.

Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh | Music | The Observer

But we are about to see another side of Jarvis: as a (softly spoken) ambassador for the environment. Greenpeace is preparing to launch what it hopes will be the ecological campaign of our generation, and Jarvis is the frontman of the UK part. As you may have deduced from Jarvis's iceman get-up, this seminal campaign concerns the Arctic, which is losing ice and gaining unwanted attention. Temperatures in the region are rising faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the ice cap to melt. Scientists think the North Pole could be ice-free in summertime within 20 years...According to Sauven at Greenpeace, its new campaign will require unprecedented global public support, and we will have less than three years to come together to avoid catastrophic ecosystem destruction. "If this campaign is successful," Sauven says, "it will be because people like Jarvis have lent their support and their ability to reach out. We urgently need this to happen globally."

... Of the Arctic sea ice, 75% has been lost over the past 30 years.