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Melting ice pulls Norway closer to Asia
2013-06-23 15:35:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway used to be further away from Asia than virtually any other European port, but it suddenly seems a lot closer. The reason: Global warming. Melting ice has opened up the Northern Sea Route along Russia's Arctic coastline, changing international trade patterns in profound ways -- even if so far it looks more like a sleepy county road than a busy, four-lane highway. In a change of potentially revolutionary significance, the travel time between the Japanese...
Look Out Below: Antarctic Melting From Underneath
2013-06-17 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Ice experts have long known that Antarctica is losing ice at the margins of its vast ice sheets, where the frozen continent meets the sea -- presumably, they thought, from icebergs breaking off and floating away. According to a report published in Science, however, more than half the ice loss is coming from warming ocean waters, which are melting the ice from underneath. "This has profound implications for our understanding of interactions between Antarctica and climate change,' said lead author...
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Cold, hard facts how melting Arctic ice will open shipping opportunities
2013-05-23 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Changing Arctic Sea ice conditions will open new shipping routes through the North Polar region and enable extended summer navigability for current open-water routes by mid-century, most notably between the East Coast of the US and Asia. But a number
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Study quantifies sea level rise from melting glaciers
2013-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: The world`s major ice sheets -- on Greenland and Antarctica -- haven`t really started a major meltdown yet. But the rest of the world`s glacial regions have been losing ice at a rate of about 260 billion metric tons annually, raising sea level by about 0.03 inches per year -- about a third of the observed sea level rise. The biggest ice losses are happening in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalaya. Combined, the areas contribute as much to sea level rise...
World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise
2013-05-16 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas....
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