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Welcome to program 51 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program, with all content in
MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz:

  1:33 Program preview (now)
  2:33 Russia Internet, with image
  7:36 Greenland ice sheet, with image
13:45 Power from ocean waves, with image
19:26 Winter's slow retreat, with images
25:30 Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram.
 

<EOT>
 

 
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Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics

VOA News
March 13, 2014

WASHINGTON - In what appears to be another move designed to
stifle dissent online, Russia's federal regulator announced on
Thursday that it had blocked access to the Internet sites of
Kremlin critics.

The list from Roskomnadzor included independent pro-opposition
news sites, the website of opposition leader Garry Kasparov, and
the blog of popular anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.

"The prosecutor general's office ordered Russian Internet
providers to restrict access to these Internet resources,"
Roskomnadzor said.

Roskomnadzor said Navalny's blog violated the conditions of house
arrest recently imposed on the opposition leader, who is serving
a five-year suspended sentence on a theft conviction, which he
claims was engineered by the Kremlin.

The other three sites were ordered blocked because they "contain
calls for illegal activity and participation in mass events
conducted in violation of the established order," the regulator
said.

Nikolai Rudensky, deputy chief editor of one of the opposition
sites, told VOA's Russian service that editors have no exact
information as to why the website is blocked.

Another blocked site editor, Alexander Ryklin, called the
blacklisting of his website "monstrous" and a "direct violation
of all the principles of freedom of speech," radio station Ekho
Moskvy reported.

Ryklin said he did not know why the site was blocked.

The moves came a day after the editor of independent news site
Lenta.ru was dismissed after it received a warning about
publication of remarks by a Ukrainian far-right leader in what
dozens of its staff members alleged was Kremlin censorship.

Ten days ago, Roskomnadzor acted on the order of the general
prosecutor's office, and blocked 13 Internet pages linked to "the
activity of Ukrainian nationalist groups."

Online activists and journalists are increasingly concerned that
the Russian leadership is seeking to broaden Internet censorship
and tighten control over Russian society as Russia faces off
against the United States and European Union in a bitter dispute
over the future of Ukraine.

"This is the latest political decision taken as part of the
cleansing of the media space," Navalny's spokeswoman Anna Veduta
said on Twitter.

The Kremlin denies allegations of censorship or pressure on the
media, but media watchdog organizations disagree.

A report by Reporters Without Borders published March 12, the
World Day against Cyber Censorship, condemned Russia, calling it
one of the "enemies of the Internet."

Russia, the report says, has adopted dangerous legislation
governing the flow of news and information and freedom of
expression online.

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-russia-blocks-internet-sites-of-putin-critics/1870769.html

<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America


VOA NEWS

Stable Region of Greenland Ice Sheet Losing Mass

Rosanne Skirble
March 16, 2014

A new study finds dramatic new thinning in the Greenland ice
sheet in a region that was considered stable until now.

Last July, Kurt Kjaer was collecting sample sediment cores from a
lake bed in southeastern Greenland when his science team
witnessed a dramatic event.

"We landed and suddenly you could feel that the ground was
starting to shake," he remembers.

The research director of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at
the University of Copenhagen is co-author of the new study about
the Greenland ice sheet.

"We turned around and we could see, 'Oh, there's a calving
event.' Two huge icebergs that are 700 meters deep that are
coming out of there, that has been released from the glacier and
that is turning around," Kjaer said. "And you can actually pick
up the signal from seismic space due to the shaking of the earth
all the way down to Japan."

Ice sheets - like those in Greenland and Antarctica - are
constantly in motion. Calving at the ocean's edge is part that
natural cycle as the ice mass flows downhill under its own
weight, moving through ice streams, glaciers and ice shelves. The
sheet remains stable as long as it accumulates the same mass of
snow that it loses at sea.

For their study in Nature Climate Change, the scientists
collected surface elevation from the entire ice sheet using
satellite data. While they knew that the southeast and northwest
were already losing mass at accelerated rates, Kjaer says they
hadn't expected to see sustainer1 d n northeastern Greenland,
which was considered stable.

"It's a new area that started to react to a warmer climate," he
said. "And it's warming in the sense that it's a warmer summer
temperatures and warmer ocean temperatures."

Reduced sea ice where the glacier meets the warmer ocean allows
icebergs to break off from the edge of the shelf. That causes the
ice stream to accelerate toward the sea. The northeastern ice
stream drains almost 16 percent of Greenland.

Kjaer's findings will likely affect the models of future sea
level rise.

"Of course it's a concern," he said. "If you have an area in
Greenland like the northeastern section that has been considered
stable and not contributing to any significant sea level rise, it
somewhat a bigger surprise you can say."

He adds that scientists will look back at the history of the ice
sheet, to put the more recent observations in perspective.

"But my feeling is that we will see that mass lost that we are
seeing over the last ten years is something out of the ordinary."

Kjaer says the new data will improve predictions of changes in a
warmer world.

http://www.voanews.com/content/stable-region-of-greenland-ice-sheet-losing-mass-/1872271.html

<EOT>
 

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<EOT>

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<EOT>
 

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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America


VOA NEWS

Harnessing Ocean Wave Power Provides Cheap Electricity

George Putic KI4FNF
March 14, 2014

WASHINGTON - An often overlooked renewable energy resource is the
power of ocean waves. Scientists in California say harnessing
energy from the regular movement of large amounts of water could
provide cheap electricity and drinking water for coastal
communities.

The relentless line of waves breaking along a coastline
represents a steady stream of energy. The problem is that the
water in waves actually goes up and down, a motion which is hard
to convert into a force pushing only one way, like a flowing
river or a blowing wind.

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley designed an
underwater device which they say not only solves this problem but
has a dual application.

"Our device has the advantage that we do not directly convert
into electricity. We can decide ourselves if we want to produce
fresh water or electricity," Lehmann said.

Their carpet-like mechanism, that rises and falls with waves,
creates hydraulic pressure, pumping seawater towards the shore.

The pressurized water can be used to run turbines, generating
electricity. Or it can be pushed through special membranes that
extract the salt to create fresh water.

Lehmann said larger versions of the wave carpet could power small
coastal communities. "So in general the available resource of
wave energy is in the order of 15 percent of the global energy
demand, which is a lot."

Mechanical engineer Reza Alam said to avoid possible impact on
coastal ecosystems, the wave carpet can be deployed in so-called
"dead zones" where there is not enough oxygen for marine life to
thrive.

"Placing a carpet on the seabed in those locations is definitely
absolutely safe to the environment," he explained.

Alam said only one-square meter of the wave carpet could supply
enough power for two typical American homes, which on a larger
scale means that the ocean could cheaply power up entire coastal
towns.

http://www.voanews.com/content/harnessing-power-of-ocean-waves-provides-cheap-electricity/1871119.html

<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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Here in the northern hemisphere, spring should be approaching. It
did not look like that in northern Virginia on Monday, March 17,
2014. This was the scene in the front of my house...


<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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I let the above-freezing temperatures later in the day melt
most of the snow off those cars.

Meanwhile, over on the west side of my house, a sign that spring
might eventually arrive...

<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram.

Thanks to colleagues at the Edward R. Murrow shortwave
transmitting station in North Carolina.

I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next VOA Radiogram.

This is VOA, the Voice of America.


<EOT>
 

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<EOT>
 

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Takk for at du lytter til og dekoder VOA Radiogram.

Norwegian for:

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<EOT>

 

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HA6KVC 22.Mrz.14 11:35 LCL Time 13dB E/2.4/HI/ 4/lng OK
9H4CM  22.Mrz.14 11:36 LCL Time  7dB B/2.4/HI/16/lng OK
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