Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Expose 1,620 km of New Coastline Since 2000
Shrinking glaciers in Greenland have revealed vast new coastlines, reshaping the Arctic landscape and global maps.
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Scientists caught off guard by rare shift unfolding high above Earth: 'A rare opportunity'
Atmospheric rivers are massive, narrow sections of the atmosphere that can help offset the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet ...
Glaciers have lost 9,000 billion tons since 1975
"The preservation of glaciers is not only an environmental, economic, and social necessity. It is a matter of survival," said ...
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Greenland’s Icy Surface Has Long Been Hiding A Secret, As New NASA Radar Uncovers The Secret City Hidden 100 Feet Below The Surface
We usually think of NASA scientists as working specifically on projects to be launched into space, but they also carry out ...
Greenland Ice Cap is now the largest contributor to global sea level rise — but why?
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...
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Kristin Poinar
Poinar’s work focuses primarily on the Greenland Ice Sheet. One of her studies found that meltwater inside certain deep fissures called crevasses can reach bedrock and find its way to the ocean, ...
Discovered By Erik The Red, Occupied By Germany In WWII: All You Need To Know About Greenland's Geopolitical Significance
Greenland’s rich oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves and its Arctic location have always been its point of attraction.
Military Times12dOpinion
Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat ...
Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...
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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
they saw a thickness of just 7.2 feet (2.2 meters). "It’s alluding to the fact that this thicker sea ice north of Greenland is not as sustainable as it once was," Linette Boisvert, the ARCSIX ...
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A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
Greenland, which is now an autonomous ... Century drilled the first core of ice that captured the full thickness of the ice sheet — a depth of 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) — and included some ...