BBCNews, By: BBC, 05/27/2013

Samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions. Researchers say this back-from-the-dead trick has implications for how ecosystems recover from the planet's cyclic long periods of ice coverage. The findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They come from a group from the University of Alberta, who were exploring an area around the Teardrop Glacier, high in the Canadian Arctic.

The glaciers in the region have been receding at rates that have sharply accelerated since 2004, at about 3-4m per year. That is exposing land that has not seen light of day since the so-called Little Ice Age, a widespread climatic cooling that ran roughly from AD 1550 to AD 1850.

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BBC.com - 3/27/13

A large number of sea creatures have been washed ashore as a result of the storm forces winds that have brought snow to Northern Ireland.

Large finds have been reported in Annalong in County Down and Whitehead in County Antrim.

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BBC - 3/22/13

• Heavy snow is causing disruption to transport and schools across the UK, with rainfall bringing flooding to the south-west of England
   
• Rescue teams are searching for a woman at a house which partially collapsed after a landslip in Looe, Cornwall

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