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A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment. The "nation's most modern roadway", proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time. However, critics argue that the ten-lane road would lay a swathe of concrete...

AXcess News) Houston, TX - Satellite surveys show that ice is melting in Antarctica faster than snow fall replenishes it, which is causing the sea to rise.Two seperate studies showed varying results.  But both studies drew the same conclusion, that the ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly.  The only difference between the studies was the amount the sea was rising.The authors work in both studies added weight to the evidence that global warming was affecting sea levels.Earlier estimates were that global warming was causing an increase in rain fall that would generate more snow fall in Greenland and the Antarctic, replacing the...