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How Melting Giant Icebergs May Help Slow Climate Change (Just A Little)
2016-01-16 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Melting icebergs may be fighting against the very forces that cause them to melt, a new study suggests. Water dripping off icebergs and into the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, contains iron and other nutrients, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. These nutrients fertilize phytoplankton, the microscopic marine life that plays a key role in oceanic ecosystems, and help the tiny plants absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as they grow into...
What's melting Greenland's ice sheet? Night clouds, say scientists
2016-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Clouds play an important role in melting Greenlands ice sheet, say scientists. A team of scientists from the University of Leuven in Belgium have found that clouds are raising the temperature of the Greenland Ice Sheet by up to 3 degrees, contributing to almost 30 percent of the sheets melting, according a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. With climate change at the back of our minds, and the disastrous consequences of a global sea level rise, we need to understand...
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The solution for melting polar ice caps may be hiding in rainforest
2016-01-11 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There was already dramatic evidence that our planet is undeniably warming before 30 December 2015, when the world heard that the ice at the North Pole was melting. (The temperature on 30 December 2015 was, by some reports, 33F [0.7C], 50F above average). And yet one immediate, effective way to fight climate change and save polar ice caps is half a world away, in the tropics. Tropical forest conservation and restoration could constitute half of the global warming solution, according to a recent...
North Pole melting point under freak heatwave
2015-12-31 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing point and came close to the melting point on Wednesday; 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm, the region was hotter than some of the major cities in Europe and the United States. According to ocean measurements from the North Pole Environmental Observatory, the mercury tipped -1.9°C (28.6°F) on Wednesday as the Arctic bathed in an unseasonably warm spell. Weather authorities blamed Wednesday's temperature spike on the freak depression which...
Centuries of melting already locked in for polar ice, scientists say
2015-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The melting of polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers will likely continue for thousands of years, causing irreversible sea level rise, even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, according to a new report published last week during the climate negotiations in Paris. Sea levels could rise 13 to 33 feet or more unless far more ambitious steps are quickly taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report issued by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, a nonprofit...
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