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Warming greater than thought

Nuuk :: Greenland | 9 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Snow and ice continue to decline in the Arctic and parts of Antarctica, affecting sea-level rise and weather patterns, as well as human, animal and plant life. The findings of International Polar Year, a global research project involving 60 nations, were...

Tags: melting, arctic, antarctic, ice, global warming

Juliette Jowit meets the explorers investigating the melting arctic

London :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Living on thin ice In a single year, the Arctic lost an area the size of Alaska...Juliette Jowit meets the British explorers risking their lives to find out On a cold Monday in December, one of Britain's most experienced polar explorers is sitting in...

Tags: mission, melting, north pole

Arctic warming pattern 'highly unusual': Report

London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

As a result, glacier and ice-sheet melting, sea-ice retreat, coastal erosion and sea level rise can be expected to continue." Ice cover in the Canadian Arctic and throughout the polar world has experienced record-setting melts in the past few years.

Tags: arctic, melting

2 trillion tons of ice have melted

Nuuk :: Greenland | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

An iceberg melts off Ammassalik Island off eastern Greenland in 2007...The water melting from Greenland in the past five years would fill up about 11 Chesapeake Bays, he said, and the Greenland melt seems to be accelerating. Thursday at the American Geophysical...

Tags: arctic, global warming, melting, climate, Greenland

Arctic melt passes the point of no return

Alaska :: AK :: USA | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen. Climate-change researchers have found that air temperatures in the...

Tags: arctic, climate, melting, Greenland, global warming

Scientists predict seasonal ice-free Arctic by 2015

Quebec :: Canada | 11 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Ice in the Canadian Arctic is melting at such an alarming pace due to climate change that the North will be seasonally ice free in six years, according to a study released yesterday from a groundbreaking scientific expedition. The dawning of a seasonal...

Tags: arctic, melting, seasonal ice, North

2 °C rise could spark meltdown

Nuuk :: Greenland | 12 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A less than 2 °C rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released on Thursday. "Scientists now suggest that even warming of less than 2 °C might be...

Tags: ice sheet, melting, ice sheets

Commission green-lights industrialisation of Arctic

Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Faster transit routes, including the fabled Northwest Passage sought by explorers for centuries, and expanded possibilities for polar tourism also provide exciting opportunities for businesses, according to the EU executive, which on Thursday (20 November)...

Tags: arctic, European Union, melting, energy security, global warming

Melting ice now main driver of rising sea levels: study

Nuuk :: Greenland | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The rate at which the global ocean water mark rises could have a devastating impact on hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying areas around the world. Earlier research had shown that sea levels crept up and average of 3.1 millimetres (0.12...

Tags: melting, global warming

New Scientist: Humans to blame for polar warming

Oslo :: Norway | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Evidence has emerged that human activity, not natural phenomena, is directly responsible for heating up the polar ice caps . The news coincides with announcements earlier this week that the Arctic ice is now thinner than at any time since records began....

Tags: arctic, global warming, ice, melting, Antarctica

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