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Greenland's Big Problem Is a Little One
Greenland's Melting Ice UNEP Though its cause may still be contentious for some (ahem, Sarah Palin), it is undeniable that Greenland is disappearing at a startling rate as large chunks of ice break...
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What Killed the Mammoths? Alien Nanodiamonds May Hold the Answer
Wooly Mammoth Did nanodiamonds mean death for this mammoth and all his friends? Depends on which study you believe. Wikimedia Commons Do nanodiamonds prove an asteroid impact killed off North...
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In Record Summer Heat, 97 Percent of Greenland's Surface Ice Turns to Slush
Greenland Ice Melt Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory and Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory This has been a sensationally hot summer for America, with records breaking...
View ArticleA Satellite View Of Glacial Melting
Greenland lost a lot of ice this summer. In this timelapse video, an iceberg 12 square miles in size breaks off from the glacier and drifts away....
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What Climate Change Sounds Like
Melting Ice Don't call me an ice cube. christine zenino A climatologist has teamed up with a musicologist to translate data from decades of glacial ice melt in Greenland into music.City College of New...
View ArticleStudent-Designed NASA Rover Is An 800-Pound, Solar-Powered Tank
Last year, satellite data showed 97 percent of Greenland's surface ice had turned to slush in unseasonably warm weather. NASA wants to study phenomena like that to learn more about why it's happening...
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In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels
Frozen in Time A cylinder of 130,000-year-old ice drilled from the Greenland ice sheet tells the story of an ancient warming period. Courtesy Neem Ice Core Drilling Project The skies do strange things...
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Mega-Canyon Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet
3D visualisation of the North facing view of the mega-canyon Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol A previously unknown canyon has been discovered in Greenland, hidden beneath the ice. It is at least...
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How Climate Science Gets Done In The Icy Fjords of Greenland
View from an Iceberg Magnus Petersen and Dave Porter prepare to lower a temperature-depth-salinity sensor into a fjord near the village of Kullorsuaq, as part of a study into changing conditions where...
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Fighter Pilot Films First Person View Of Flight Over Fjords
DYE Radar Station 2 From A Freaking Fighter Jet Window The snow is also Greenland. Screenshot of video by John Kristensen, YouTube Being a fighter pilot is a lot of work. Maintence, years of training,...
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Virtual Hearts, Fanged Deer And Other Amazing Images Of The Week
Fanged Deer These toothy deer haven't been seen in 60 years, until this October--just in time for Halloween! Kashmir musk deer may be reminiscent of Dracula but they use their fangs to challenge other...
View ArticleWhat Killed the Mammoths? Alien Nanodiamonds May Hold the Answer
Do nanodiamonds prove an asteroid impact killed off North America's massive mammals 13,000 years ago? It depends on which scientist you ask. A pair of studies published in…
View ArticleIn Record Summer Heat, 97 Percent of Greenland's Surface Ice Turns to Slush
This has been a sensationally hot summer for America, with records breaking daily. But Greenland seems to have just claimed the heat-related phenomenon crown, with 97 percent…
View ArticleA Satellite View Of Glacial Melting
Greenland lost a lot of ice this summer. In this timelapse video, an iceberg 12 square miles in size breaks off from the glacier and drifts away. The region faced not…
View ArticleWhat Climate Change Sounds Like
A climatologist has teamed up with a musicologist to translate data from decades of glacial ice melt in Greenland into music. City College of New York music professor …
View ArticleStudent-Designed NASA Rover Is An 800-Pound, Solar-Powered Tank
Last year, satellite data showed 97 percent of Greenland's surface ice had turned to slush in unseasonably warm weather. NASA wants to study phenomena like that to learn…
View ArticleIn Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels
The skies do strange things at the NEEM camp, a remote ice-drilling and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet. Midnight sunshine. Low clouds of sparkling ice crystals known as "diamond...
View ArticleMega-Canyon Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet
A previously unknown canyon has been discovered in Greenland, hidden beneath the ice. It is at least 750 kilometres long. To put that in perspective, imagine a ten…
View ArticleHow Climate Science Gets Done In The Icy Fjords of Greenland
Do you wonder what doing climate science in remote locations might be like? Read the Greenland Thaw blog, which is being updated regularly from the fjords of northwest…
View ArticleFighter Pilot Films First Person View Of Flight Over Fjords
Being a fighter pilot is a lot of work. Maintence, years of training, planning for missions, paperwork -- all just to pilot one of the faster, deadlier machines ever…
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