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Melting permafrost could worsen water quality in Rockies
2014-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Colorado Independent: Heavy metals concentrations are increasing in the Snake River, near Keystone, Colorado, and some scientists think global warming may be a factor. We may not yet know exactly how global warming will affect all the complex parts of Rocky Mountain ecosystems, but its not for lack of trying. Scientists are prodding the soil, counting wildflowers, measuring winds and gauging snowfall nearly every day to unravel the mysteries of the anthropocene, this present-day geological epoch in which humans are...
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Polar ice sheets melting - in pictures
2014-08-24 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting three times faster today than they were in the 1990s, according to a 'definitive' study of satellite data. These pictures show the different ways that melting occurs
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Greenland ice melting at record speed
2014-08-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Satellite data shows ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are declining at record speed. The annual loss of ice has doubled in the case of Greenland and tripled in the West Antarctic compared to figures from 2009. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven mapping elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers have found ice sheets are melting at record pace. Per year, the ice sheets dump some 500 cubic kilometers of ice into the oceans. The researchers say that...
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Oh, Great: Antarctica and Greenland Are Melting Faster Than Ever
2014-08-21 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Oh great, ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland are melting at the fastest rate in recorded history. A group of researchers in Germany spent about three years measuring the two ice sheets melting, and figured out that with the two sheets combined, theyre thinning at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometers every year, according to research published yesterday in The Cryopshere. When we compare the current data with those from the ICESat satellite from the year 2009, the volume loss in Greenland...
Humans to Blame for World's Melting Glaciers
2014-08-15 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As our world warms, glacial ice continues to retreat. However, scientists have now come to realize that humans are mostly to blame, rather than being able to solely peg it on natural climate fluctuations, according to a new study. Glacier extent actually responds very slowly to climate changes. In fact, it typically takes glaciers decades or centuries to adjust. The global retreat of these massive chunks of ice started around the middle of the 19th century at the end of the Little Ice Age. Though...
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