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Ancient snow patches melting at record speed
2015-02-06 05:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Norway is dotted with small glaciers and permanent snow patches that contain all sorts of archaeological treasures, from ancient shoes to 5000-year-old arrowheads. But climate change has turned up the temperature on these snowfields and they are vanishing at an astonishing rate. They actually shouldn't be found in Norway. Summers are too hot and winters too dry for glaciers or perennial snow patches to form here. Yet, the Kringsollfonna ice patch in S¸r-Tr¸ndelag county and the Storbreen glacier...
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Iceland is melting so fast, its literally popping off the planet
2015-02-01 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: Iceland is rising. Or, more precisely, the islands ice part is shrinking, causing the land part to rebound from the Earths crust--a process thats happening at a pace much faster than scientists had previously realised. In fact, its glaciers are melting so swiftly that parts of Iceland are rising as much as 1.4 inches (35mm) a year. Thats according to research just published (paywall) by a team led by scientists from the University of Arizona. The study is the first to directly link the...
Our polar regions are simply 'melting away,' and it's a beautiful disaster
2015-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Earth's polar regions are some of the planet's most fragile places. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth, and snow and ice cover are declining significantly. Part of Antarctica has warmed faster than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere and wildlife has already been affected. As Antarctic sea ice has expanded in some areas, Arctic ice has seen a greater and record-breaking decline. Amid these changes, photographer Camille Seaman traveled yearly to the Arctic...
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Rapid Draining of Greenland Lakes Signals Massive Melting, Researchers Say
2015-01-22 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Researchers have discovered craters left behind when two lakes under the Greenland ice sheet rapidly drained recently -- an indication that a massive amount of meltwater has started overflowing the ice sheet's natural plumbing and is causing "blowouts" that drain lakes away, they say. One of the two lakes once held billions of gallons of water and emptied to form a mile-wide crater in just a few weeks, researchers report in the journal The Cryosphere. The other lake, described this week in the journal...
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Melting Greenland ice sheet is biggest contributor to sea level rise
2015-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: As the largest single chunk of melting snow and ice in the world, the massive ice sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland is recognized as the biggest potential contributor to rising sea levels due to glacial meltwater. Until now, however, scientists attention has mostly focused on the ice sheets aquamarine lakes bodies of meltwater that tend to abruptly drain and on monster chunks of ice that slide into the ocean to become icebergs. But a new UCLA-led study reveals a vast network...
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