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Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought
2016-10-14 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] COLUMBUS, Ohio—The same hotspot in Earth's mantle that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has been playing a trick on the scientists who are trying to measure how much ice is melting on nearby Greenland. According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, the hotspot softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that ultimately distorted their calculations for ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet. This caused them to underestimate the mel…
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Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste
2016-09-26 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland -- dubbed "a city under ice" -- could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up. In 1959, US army engineers began constructing a futuristic project in northwestern Greenland that might as well have been lifted from a Cold War spy movie. A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything from research facilities to a hospital, a cinema and a church -- all powered...
Global warming: Greenland ice melting 7 per cent faster than thought
2016-09-22 06:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Greenland lost nearly 2,700 gigatonnes of ice from 2003-2013, 7.6 per cent more than previously thought, a new study has found. According to researchers from Ohio State University in the US, the hotspot that feeds Icelands active volcanoes has softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that ultimately distorted their calculations for ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet. This caused them to underestimate the melting by about 20 billion metric tonnes or 20 gigatonnes per year. That means...
Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold WarEra Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military
2016-08-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold Warera US military base known as Camp Century - also known as "the city under the ice" - could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder) and others. When Camp Century does melt, there will likely be significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), sewage, radioactive coolant, wastewater, and diesel fuel, amongst other things,...
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Melting Ice Sheet Could Expose Abandoned U.S. Arctic Military Base
2016-08-05 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet could unearth a secret, Cold War-era military base as early as next century, according to a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Camp Century was built in 1959 to explore whether the U.S. could covertly deploy ballistic missiles from within the ice sheet, a mission known as Project Iceworm. By 1967, the military had abandoned the base with little clean up, expecting it would be naturally entombed as snow and ice continued to accumulate on...
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