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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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Vikings named this land Greenland only for 'promotional' goals, as it was mostly a frozen land. Rapid thawing on the world's biggest island has started to improve conditions for agriculture, commercial fishing, mining and oil exploration. Arctic temperatures experience the most dramatic rise with the g... |
19 October 2007
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Today's Greenland is an icy polar desert; just on the southern coast, there is some tundra vegetation, with its giants represented by dwarf birch and willows that do not grow taller than 1-2 ft (0.3-0.6 m). The name "Greenland" was given by the first Viking explorers just to attract colonists to the area. Wood d... |
6 July 2007
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Sea levels have risen 10 cm (4 inch) from the beginning of the industrial era, when people started to dump huge amounts of carbon dioxide resulted from the burning of the fossil fuels into the atmosphere. But what has occurred till now is nothing compared to what is going to happen if only the Greenland's ice sh... |
2 May 2007
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Who discovered America? When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped in the New World. It seems that, 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors and warriors were roaming northern Africa, east... |
20 March 2007
11:11 GMT |
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