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Using data supplied by a NASA spacecraft, a team of experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) was recently able to determine that global sea levels rose by 0.5 inches (12 millimeters) between 2003 and 2010. Though this may not seem like much, experts provide frightening statistics.
They say that the vol... |
9 February 2012
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According to a recently-published study, it would appear that the entire island of Greenland rose by as much as a quarter of an inch in 2010. This happened primarily because a lot of ice on its landmass melted away, easing the pressure on the landmass itself.
A similar phenomenon is currently being observed in Anta... |
14 December 2011
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A study led by experts at NASA determined that decades in which the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual tend to lead to the creation of slow-moving winter weather systems. These atmospheric patterns are renowned for producing massive amounts of snowfall. Such systems can also form when Atlantic temperatures are... |
4 November 2011
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An international team of investigators believes it may have discovered one of the possible birthplaces of life here on Earth. The research took the group to the mud volcanoes of Isua, in southwestern Greenland. The location fulfilled all necessary conditions to support the development of life.
The team was led by e... |
25 October 2011
08:37 GMT |
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At an exhibition designed to emphasize a common interest between Greenland and the Netherlands in understanding how global warming is changing the Arctic, participants heard more about the tremendous contribution that the European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat mission is bringing to this field of research.The Roots2Shar... |
17 October 2011
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Scientists studying the planet's gravity say that ices melting from Greenland and the Antarctic are influencing this field, something that wasn't even suspected before. The new discovery could finally reveal why the two ice-rich areas began melting so fast over the past few decades.Furthermore, the data mig... |
16 August 2011
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Right before it was decommissioned on July 6, the second European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-2) sent back a final treasure trove of glacier data, that masterfully crowned its amazing, 16-year mission. A large part of the measuring methods current satellites use were first tested and validated aboard this testbed s... |
8 July 2011
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A massive ice island that broke off the Greenland ice sheet nearly a year ago has now been identified off the coasts of Labrador, Canada. The massive iceberg has been drifting in the North Atlantic, posing a danger for navigation, but authorities now know its location. The object became separated from the Petermann G... |
6 July 2011
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When researchers first noticed that the world's oceans tended to warm up, they calculated the amount of time it would take for adjacent glaciers and ice sheets to melt down. Now, new studies are showing that the meltdown could occur a lot earlier than experts first calculated. In addition to the warming itself, ... |
4 July 2011
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Scientists say that Vikings settlers which occupied Greenland were severely affected by climate change thousands of years ago. The changes their environment suffered eventually led to the collapse of this population on the island. A study conducted by researchers at the Brown University found in an accurate climate... |
31 May 2011
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Officials at the American space agency say that they are planning to launch a replacement for a now-defunct ice-monitoring satellite as soon as 2016. They have now just decided on the contractor that will build the spacecraft's laser systems. The cost-plus-award-fee contract is worth more than $26 million dollar... |
27 May 2011
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The newest studies aimed at calculating the exact extent of ice loss in Greenland reveal that the two of three most important glaciers on the island have thus far lost enough ice that the meltwater can fill Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes at the border between Canada and the United States.According to scientis... |
25 May 2011
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Scientists with Operation IceBridge, currently underway around the Arctic, have just returned from another research flight over Greenland. They also brought back pictures of what they saw above the ices, and the views are not encouraging.They are again underlying the effects that global warming is having on the areas... |
1 April 2011
04:53 GMT |
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The conclusions of a new scientific research bring about new concerns that two of the largest ice masses on the planet – Greenland and the Antarctic – are melting away at much faster rates than previously calculated. There are significant implications to this discovery, experts say, especially in terms of... |
9 March 2011
05:38 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have believed that warmer temperatures over the summer would speed up the flow of glaciers from ice shelves into the sea. But new satellite data collected by an European spacecraft show that this is not the case, and that warm weather actually slows down the glaciers. Investigators were equ... |
27 January 2011
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Last year, the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet established new records, and the consequences of this kind of climate will be visible in coming decades, as the sea level rises.
These are the conclusions of a new research, with several aspects sponsored by WWF (World Wildlife Fund), the US National Science Founda... |
22 January 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Studies of places such as Greenland are evidencing the fact that land-based glaciers in these regions are currently melting, and flowing towards the sea at high speeds. But a new research shows that meltwater, long-thought to be a favoring factor in this, actually plays a different role.Glaciers tend to flow downhill... |
13 December 2010
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Airplanes conducting the IceBridge experiment for NASA managed to carry out the first flight of the 2010 season on October 27, after experiencing more than five days of delay due to unfavorable weather conditions. The American space agency is conducting research in the Antarctic to analyze the extent and state of ice... |
29 October 2010
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A group of scientists attached sensors to 14 narwhals, and managed to accurately measure winter temperatures in the waters off western Greenland.The climate scientists had limited ways of measuring the winter temperatures of Baffin Bay, because of the thick and dense ice, the harsh conditions and the high cost of thi... |
28 October 2010
10:33 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom says that its current research effort, of peering at the geophysical and hydrological conditions below the surface of the Greenland ice sheets, are critically important for the future. They believe that this line of study could help us better understand the ensemble of ... |
7 September 2010
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A team of German researchers who got a chance to analyze ash particles from the cloud emitted by Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in Greenland, say that the structures were larger than they ever expected. As soon as the glaciovolcano began spewing out vast amounts of ash and magma, researchers in Leipzig set up their scient... |
21 August 2010
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NASA is keeping an eye on a massive iceberg, that broke off a glacier in Greenland about a week ago. Officials at the American space agency say that the large chunk of ice, which is about four times larger than Manhattan, could reach a position from which it could threaten shipping lanes in the region. This will happ... |
13 August 2010
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Greenland has just lost a massive chunk of ice from its Petermann Glacier, experts report. The structure, which is an estimated four time the size of Manhattan, is now floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean. According to scientists, this is the first time since 1962 that such a massive piece of ice breaks loose, and t... |
7 August 2010
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Scientists were recently able to determine that the entire island of Greenland is rising extremely fast from the waters. They say that losing its ice sheets, icebergs and caps makes the land a lot lighter. With this massive weight removed, the land is soaring upwards at rates of up to 1 inch per year. In geological t... |
19 May 2010
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A large number of geologists, oceanographers and planetary scientists believe that the effects of global warming and climate change will become so severe, that the polar ice caps will be greately affected. Because it's floating on water, rather than deposited on land, the Arctic is naturally more vulnerable. The... |
10 April 2010
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that the world's ice caps are melting. At both the North and the South Pole, and in Greenland, the largest expanses of ice on the planet are gradually getting smaller. The main culprit has been identified to be global warming, which climate scientists say heats up the world... |
2 April 2010
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An international collaboration of researchers has recently determined that Greenland is beginning to lose its ice sheets faster and also over more widespread regions than in the past decade. With datasets extracted from satellite study, and in-situ GPS measurements, the scientists were able to piece together an image... |
26 March 2010
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Starting on Monday, March 22, NASA will resume observations in the largest airborne survey of polar ices in history. The Operation IceBridge mission is about to kick off its second year of observations, and the moment will be marked by the arrival of some NASA-operated aircraft in Greenland. The reason why this study... |
19 March 2010
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the glaciers in Greenland are melting a lot faster underwater, thnn they are at the surface. Experts in charge of the study, based at a NASA lab, and a number of universities in the US and Canada say that this difference could be attributed to the fact... |
18 February 2010
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Geneticists have been recently able to conduct the first genetic sequencing process on ancient humans, when they have analyzed a few strands of hair that have been frozen in the permafrost of Greenland for the past 4,000 years. This type of study will allow researchers to track back numerous genetic traits to our anc... |
11 February 2010
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Climatologists concluded in a new scientific study that climate variations recorded in Greenland over the course of the last Ice Age also had repercussions for the area that was known as the American Southwest at that point. The data that led to this conclusion were collected from a limestone cave in Arizona, which f... |
21 January 2010
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In spite of looking like a giant stretch of ice in the Northern Pacific, Greenland fulfills a number of functions in the region, not the least important of them being the fact that it helps keep the North Pole cool. The way it manages to accomplish that is by being large and white, in the purest of senses. Light comi... |
13 November 2009
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Experts have always thought that lower atmospheric temperatures help keep glaciers frozen in ice sheets, or on mountaintops, but new measurements from a NASA satellite show that ice spreads play a crucial role in keeping temperatures low. Greenland is especially important in this scheme, as its ices reflect back a la... |
29 October 2009
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A new survey conducted by the American space agency's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICEsat) has revealed that more and more ice is falling off the Greenland and Antarctic sheets into the world's oceans, as glaciers get thinner on account of global warming. The formations increase their flow rate... |
25 September 2009
06:21 GMT |
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There is no doubt in anyone's mind that we are currently in a warm Earth period. And we're not talking here about the climate change-type of warming, but of the planet's natural warming/cooling cycle. The current trend began some 11,700 years ago, and that is why Danish researchers looking into the his... |
17 September 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Using historical meteorological data, other accounts and a natural climate “archive,” researchers investigating the evolution of the ice sheet between Greenland and the North European island archipelago of Svalbard have determined that the ice there is at its lowest in 800 years of tracked history. This p... |
2 July 2009
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In their travels around the world, to places no one had gone before, old-era naturalists were amazed to discover enormous plant species in the tropical regions, and in other exotic places, and they could not explain why this was happening. Now, researchers have managed to finally elaborate a theory that explains why ... |
24 June 2009
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Recent investigations have proven that large and seemingly unmovable glaciers can rapidly shrink, in just a few centuries. Researchers from the University at Buffalo came to this conclusion after they analyzed traces left behind by a large ancient glacier, which existed in the Canadian Arctic. They concluded that the... |
22 June 2009
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In some of the most remote areas of the world, finding a suitable nesting place can be a real problem. That's why some birds don't even bother going through all that hassle, and remain in the regions around which they grow up. They take care of their young in the same nests that their parents used to rear t... |
17 June 2009
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by experts at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the coasts of the United States and Canada may actually be more in danger than previous models have predicted. The largest threat comes from the melting ice sheet of Greenland, which, if separated from... |
28 May 2009
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Researchers find themselves puzzled by an unexpected phenomenon, namely the accelerating melting process of ice sheets on both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The reason why the melt is unexpected is because it doesn't only happen along specific portions of the two shelves, as it has done until now, but also on va... |
26 February 2009
03:23 GMT |
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According to a new research, published by British and American researchers in the journal Nature Geoscience, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet may be nothing more than a localized phenomenon, and the process through which the ice sheet disintegrates, threatening the lives and possessions of hundreds of millions ... |
12 January 2009
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New research, published recently in the journal Science, seems to point at the fact that saber tooths, mammoths, giant sloths and camels, as well as the Clovis culture, were driven into extinction by a 1,300 year-long cold spell, triggered by numerous comet impacts in 6 states across the northern US and several in so... |
5 January 2009
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Recent NASA observations of the world's ice spreads, via the GRACE satellite system, show that the ice in all the major reserves, including Greenland, Antarctica, Alaska, and the Himalayas, is melting at an ever increasing speed. According to official estimates, over the past 5 years, more than 2 trillion tons o... |
16 December 2008
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Researchers were able to finally identify the mechanisms through which cracks appear in the large ice shelves covering Antarctica and Greenland, a process known as calving. Understanding exactly how this happens is crucial, as the two regions stock most of the ice on Earth, whose melting could increase sea levels by ... |
28 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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A large portion of Greenland's ancient glaciers is currently melting, at a very high speed, say locals. The roaring of the cracks can be heard for tens of miles in all directions. The people near the blocks of ice, who see glaciers melting every summer, reported that the large icebergs that used to come off the ... |
13 October 2008
09:28 GMT |
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There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has ... |
4 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Polar bears are highly emblematic in signaling the impact of global warming. The narwhal is the species most vulnerable to global warming. Yet, not only Arctic marine mammals are affected by global warming: western Greenland's caribou experiences a mismatched migration caused by warming, that translates in less ... |
14 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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NASA confirms it: the surface temperature of Greenland's ice sheet is going up, fueled by warming air, causing a melt at the surface of and throughout the mass of the ice cap. A total melting of the Greenland ice would raise sea level by about 23 ft (7.8 m). This may not happen, but Greenland has been adding 2 m... |
26 February 2008
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If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or n... |
8 November 2007
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