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NASA: Greenland shows unprecedented melt
Nuuk :: Greenland | 10 months ago
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Earth's melting land ice is adding to the rise in sea levels worldwide. Greenland, Antarctica, and their peripheral ice caps and glaciers averaged 385 billion tons a year. For several days this July, Greenland's surface ice melted over a larger area
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Rare Burst of Melting Seen in Greenland Ice Sheet
Nuuk :: Greenland | 11 months ago
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On average, about half of the surface of the ice sheet melts during the summer...I started looking at the satellite imagery and saw something that was really unprecedented since the advent of satellite imaging of the earth's frozen surface, or
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NASA: Strange and sudden massive melt in Greenland
Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 months ago
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Scientists say there's been a freak event in Greenland this month: Nearly every part of the massive ice sheet that blankets the island suddenly started melting. Even Greenland's coldest place showed melting...Until now, the most
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Unprecedented Greenland ice melt observed
Nuuk :: Greenland | 11 months ago
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The expert recalled noticing that most of Greenland appeared to have undergone surface melting on July 12 while analysing data from the Indian Space Research Organisation's Oceansat-2 satellite...Melt maps drawn up showed that on July 8 about 40 per
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Global warming – huge glacier breaks off from Greenland ice sheet
A huge glacier of the size of twice Manhattan has reportedly broken off from the Greenland ice shelf and is a matter of great concern for the world. This has been reported in foxnews of dated 18th of July 2012. A crack had
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Sea levels may rise much higher, says study
Nuuk :: Greenland | 11 months ago
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Andrea Dutton, formerly of the The Australian National University College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, teamed up with Kurt Lambeck, ANU professor to analyse fossil corals around the world from the last interglacial period, 125,000 years ago.
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Cast adrift... Family of polar bears swim for their lives after being marooned 60 miles out to sea
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 1 year ago
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The mother and her two six-month-old cubs got marooned 60 miles out to sea in Svalbard, Norway, in the Arctic Circle. The cubs were seen clambering on to the floating ice sheet, while their mother planned their next move. A polar bear and her two six
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Arctic ice sheets may provide clues in searching for alien life
Nuuk :: Greenland | 1 year ago
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A group of researchers, led by environmental biogeochemist Jeffrey White from Indiana University, looked at glaciers in Greenland to study the methane released by methanogenic microbes...Researchers said that the samples from Mars have to be
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Ice sheet expert wins prestigious prize
Ōsaka :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Abe, 49, who specializes in climate change modeling at the university's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, was commended for her accurate projections of the world's shrinking ice sheets, a factor widely attributed to rising global temperatures
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Octopus `hints at West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse`
Noida :: India | 1 year ago
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Octopus 'hints at West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse' Washington: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- one of the world's major ice sheets, could collapse if global warming continues, scientists have warned after analysing the genetic evidence from an
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