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Greenland glaciers found to be melting on fast track
2015-12-10 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Greenland's glaciers are retreating quickly, and a new study shows in historical terms just how quickly: over the past century, at least twice as fast as any other time in the past 9,500 years. The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades. To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier-fed...
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Artist hauls Greenland ice to Paris as a reminder of climate change
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Residents of central Paris got a chilling reminder on Thursday of the challenge facing negotiators at the world climate summit on the city's outskirts: 80 tonnes of Greenland ice left to slowly melt on the cobbles in front of the Pantheon. The ice was scooped from a Greenland fjord and hauled to Paris as part of an installation by the visual artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York City in 2008 and an artificial sky inside the Tate Modern gallery in London in 2003....
Another Glacier in Greenland is rapidly melting
2015-11-19 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: It's big. It's cold. And it's melting into the world's ocean. It's Zachariae Isstrom, the latest in a string of Greenland glaciers to undergo rapid change in our warming world. A new NASA-funded study published today in the journal Science finds that Zachariae Isstrom broke loose from a glaciologically stable position in 2012 and entered a phase of accelerated retreat. The consequences will be felt for decades to come. The reason? Zachariae Isstrom is big. It drains ice from an area of 35,440 square...
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Why massive Greenland glacier is melting from below
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A massive glacier in northeast Greenland, named Zachariae Isstrom, has come detached from a stabilizing sill and is rapidly melting into the North Atlantic Ocean, according to a new study. Zachariae Isstrom began "accelerated retreat" in 2012 and is currently melting at a rate of 5 billion tons per year, a team of scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Kansas, and the University of California-Irvine published in the journal Science last week. This spells bad news...
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Slide of north Greenland glacier quickens, raising sea levels
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A glacier in northeast Greenland with enough ice to raise world ocean levels by 50 cms (20 inches) has begun to slide faster toward the sea, extending ice losses to all corners of the vast remote island, a study showed on Thursday. Warmer water temperatures meant the end of the Zachariae Isstrom glacier floated free from a ridge of bedrock below sea level on which it had rested until 2012, according to the U.S. study reported in the journal Science. Without that natural brake, the glacier in the...
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