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A Better Way To Bring Canada & The US Together

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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:39:07 +0000

No matter where you go for news and commentary, it’s hard to have missed some crazy commentary from President Elect Trump in recent days. Not only is he saying that he wants to buy Greenland (perhaps because it looks bigger than it is on Mercator maps), but he wants to … [continued]

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Ask A Glaciologist: This Is What To Do About Climate Change

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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:41:43 +0000

Glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre shares her insights on climate change following a dangerous expedition to the Arctic led by free soloist Alex Honnold.

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Images of the Day: Thinning of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

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Credit to Author: NASA| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:00:41 +0000

Greenland is home to the planet’s largest ice sheet outside of Antarctica. Observations collected from the ground, air, and space have revealed rapid thinning in the northeast part of this ice sheet that could contribute more to sea level rise than previously thought. “Rivers” of relatively fast-moving ice, known as ice streams, generally flow from […]

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Doomsday Glacier Could Retreat At Existentially Risky Rate

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Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:52:12 +0000

A massive Antarctic glacier is less stable and could potentially cause more and more rapid sea level rise than previously predicted, a study published Monday in Nature Geoscience finds. The Thwaites Glacier, known as the “doomsday glacier” because it holds enough water to raise global sea levels by multiple feet, is especially susceptible to rising […]

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27 Centimeter Sea Level Rise Is “Inevitable” As Greenland Ice Pack Melts

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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:13:52 +0000

A team of climate scientists led by professor Jason Box of the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) say that even if we stopped putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere today, the amount of sea level rise from melting of the ice pack that covers most of Greenland will lead to a […]

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Six-kilometer long iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

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Six-kilometer long iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

An iceberg four miles (six kilometers) long has broken off from a glacier in eastern Greenland.
New York University professor David Holland, an expert in atmospheric and ocean science, has told The Associated Press that “this is the largest event we’ve seen in over a decade in Greenland.”

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