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Few Caribou Births in Greenland Linked to Sea Ice Melt
2013-10-02 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Melting sea ice in Greenland may be leading to fewer caribou births and higher calf mortality, according to new research linking the loss of sea ice with changes of the timing of plant growth on land. Researchers from Penn State University report that sea ice melt spurs the early growth of plants, which goes on to affect the feeding patterns of caribou. The caribou are reportedly bearing fewer offspring, which the researchers, writing in journal Nature Communications, link to the sea ice melt....
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Warming in Greenland Sea Outpaces Global Ocean Warming
2013-09-25 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The Greenland Sea is warming nearly 10 times faster than warming rates estimated for the rest of the global ocean, according to research from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany. To investigate climate change in the region, the scientists compiled temperature and salinity measurements taken in the Greenland Sea since 1993 and coupled the data with historical observations dating back to the 1950s. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research...
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Climate change will turn Greenland green
2013-09-08 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: History teachers often point out the humor in Greenlands name. That northerly land, after all, is anything but green. According to the Icelandic Sagas, Eric the Redexiled from Iceland for the crime of murderstumbled upon Greenlands glacial shores in the late 10th century. Though Coldland or Snowyland would have been more apt, he dubbed the place Grnland in the hopes of luring settlers to the remote outpost with the promise of bountiful forests and fields. Eric the Reds false advertising,...
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Greenland Ice Hides Gorge Longer than the Grand Canyon
2013-08-30 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A massive gorge nearly twice as long as the Grand Canyon is hidden under Greenland's ice sheet, reports a team of researchers from the U.K, Canada, and Italy. With a width of about six miles and a maximum depth of 2,600 feet, the previously undiscovered canyon is as wide as its Arizona counterpart and nearly half as deep. Flowing water likely carved the canyon long before the formation of the mile-deep ice sheet that has blanketed it for the past few million years. Researchers found the feature using...
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Greenland has its own Grand Canyon deep under ice, study says
2013-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A canyon similar in scale, if not in grandeur, to Arizona's Grand Canyon lies beneath Greenland's ice sheet, according to a new study. Running from deep within the island's interior north to Greenland's northwest coast, the canyon measures at least 470 miles long, six miles across at its widest, and as many as 2,600 feet deep reaching its widest and deepest points near the coast. The Grand Canyon, by comparison, is 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and 6,000 feet deep. The portrait points to...
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