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MILWAUKEE – Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death. "I've never had to put up with this in the past," said Duane Kassens, a driver from West Bend who got into a fender-bender recently because he couldn't see the lights. "The police officer told me the new lights weren't melting the snow. How is that safe?" Many communities have switched to LED...

WASHINGTON – There's a new burger in town, and it's got Michelle Obama's name on it. The "Michelle Melt" turkey burger at Good Stuff Eatery was unveiled Thursday by chef Spike Mendelsohn, a former contestant on Bravo's "Top Chef" competition. He developed it in collaboration with White House chef Sam Kass, who previously cooked for the Obama family in Chicago. What makes a turkey burger qualify as a "Michelle Melt?" Fresh, organic, locally grown ingredients that promote healthier eating, and the same herbs that are found in the White House garden started by Mrs. Obama.

The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem. A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland's coast together account for three times more loss from the island's ice sheet than the amount coming from their huge relatives. In a study just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists at Ohio State University reported that nearly 75 percent of the loss of Greenland ice can be traced back to small coastal glaciers....

Glaciologists for the first time observed the sudden drainage of meltwater from the top of the Greenland ice sheet to its base, a phenomenon that can help speed up summer ice movement, a report said Thursday. The scientists discovered what they described as a natural plumbing system on the glacier by which meltwater penetrates deeply in the kilometer (0.62 mile) thick ice mass, wrote glaciologists Sarah Das of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Ian Joughin of University of Washington at Seattle. Thousands of lakes form on top of the Greenland ice sheet each summer. Satellite pictures show that the lakes...

Scientists have discovered a huge active volcano under Antarctica. - The BAS team says data from the volcano will help it predict future rises in sea-levels caused by melting ice.