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Study: Climate Tipping Point – 2 articles
Phys.org: ‘Doomsday’ climate tipping points have wiggle room: Study. Global warming thresholds that could tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting or see the Amazon rainforest shrivel into savannah have “grace periods”, giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers have calculated. More than a dozen tipping […]
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How an election in Greenland could affect China — and the rare-earth minerals in your cellphone
Washington Post: How an election in Greenland could affect China — and the rare-earth minerals in your cellphone.
Sitting on vast, untapped reserves of uranium and rare-earth minerals, Greenland holds the keys to massive wealth.
But many Greenlanders […]
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New Documentary ‘Meltdown’ Looks At Greenland’s Melting Glaciers And The Effects Of Climate Change
WABE: New Documentary ‘Meltdown’ Looks At Greenland’s Melting Glaciers And The Effects Of Climate Change. A new documentary, “Meltdown,” brings viewers to the shores of Greenland’s melting glaciers for an exploration of natural beauty at its most vulnerable. “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke […]
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Study: Greenland’s ice sheet could begin losing more than it gains every year as soon as 2055, a new study says
Arctic Today: Greenland’s ice sheet could begin losing more than it gains every year as soon as 2055, a new study says. But if strong measures are taken to prevent the rise of global temperatures, the negative threshold could be avoided.
If global warming continues unabated, the surface of the
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Studies: Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse
Washington Post: Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse. Ice is melting faster worldwide, with greater sea-level rise anticipated, studies show.
Global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, and scientists […]
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Scientists descended into Greenland’s perilous ice caverns — and came back with a worrying message
The Washington Post discusses Scientists descended into Greenland’s perilous ice caverns — and came back with a worrying message. Vertical ice caves in Greenland, called ‘moulins,’ drain water from the ice to the sea — and they’re even bigger than we thought.
The scientists […]
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Study: Greenland could lose more ice this century than it has in 12,000 years
National Geographic discusses why Greenland could lose more ice this century than it has in 12,000 years. The rate of ice melt over the last two decades was comparable to the highest points in recent geologic history—and it’s still speeding up.
GREENLAND IS ON track to lose more ice this century […]
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Study: Rise in sea level from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica match worst-case scenario
CBC discusses a study showing that the rise in sea level from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica match worst-case scenario. Rise could expose 16 million people to annual coastal flooding by the end of the century, says study. Sea ice meets land as seen from NASA’s Operation IceBridge research […]
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Study: Loss of Greenland Ice Sheet Reached a Record Last Year
The New York Times discusses the loss of Greenland ice sheet reached a record last year. The ice loss in 2019 was more than twice the annual average since 2003, scientists said.
Greenland lost a record amount of ice in 2019, researchers reported Thursday. Nearly half of it was […]
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