"Why do so many Greenlanders kill themselves?" Jason George, Slate
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Climate Change: Whole Lot of Shaking Going On ...
Wade Norris | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver
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Some geologists say glacial melting due to climate change will unleash pressures in the Earth's crust, causing extreme geological events like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
NASA data: Greenland, Antarctic ice melt worsening
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
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New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.
British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That's where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
Some of those areas are about a mile thick, so they've still got plenty of ice to burn through. But the drop in thickness is speeding up. In parts of Antarctica, the yearly rate of thinning from 2003 to 2007 is 50 percent higher than it was from 1995 to 2003.
These new measurements, based on 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite, confirm what some of the more pessimistic scientists thought: The melting along the crucial edges of the two major ice sheets is accelerating and is in a self-feeding loop. The more the ice melts, the more water surrounds and eats away at the remaining ice.
"To some extent it's a runaway effect. The question is how far will it run?" said the study's lead author, Hamish Pritchard of the British Antarctic Survey. "It's more widespread than we previously thought."
Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers
AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 09.23.2009 | Home
With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.
An orange tube fixed to a metal frame breaks the surface as the motorized winch stops groaning. Inside: data on the water temperature deep down in this glacial fjord off southeast Greenland.
"If you were to dip your hand in it, it doesn't seem that warm," says Curry, an American climate scientist. "But it is. It's warm enough to melt ice. And that's the important thing here."
Curry and her colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts zigzagged between majestic icebergs in the Sermilik fjord last month in search of proof that waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are flushing through this remote and frigid region.
They found it – all the way up to the base of the outlet glaciers that spill into the ocean like tongues of ice from Greenland's massive ice sheet.
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home
ZACKENBERG RESEARCH STATION, GREENLAND—"The other day a massive ice sheet broke off and split my Fightcave completely in half," said superhero F...
Dramatic Iceberg Collapses (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
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What could be more shocking then to see an iceberg melt before your eyes? We here at HuffPost Green realized that our story on Rick Sanchez's video o...
Iceberg Melts Right Before Rick Sanchez's Eyes (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
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On Monday, Rick Sanchez aired this amazing video of a iceberg spontaneously collapsing in front a group of spectators in Greenland. Sanchez points out...
A Call for Some Much Needed Sisterhood on This Planet
Linda Adams | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
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Global warming affects our entire planet but it has a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, especially women.
Reindeer In Sharp Decline
msn.com | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
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In Alaska, Canada, Greenland and other Arctic regions, people depend on caribou and reindeer as both a food source and a spiritual anchor. A new study...
World In Photos: June 2, 2009
Huffington Post | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
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Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...
EU Votes to End Sale of Seal Products - Canada Not Happy
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home
The European Parliament voted to ban imports of seal products Tuesday, including fur coats and even omega-3 pills, trying to force Canada to end the a...
Destination: Greenland -- Lessons from the Ice
Ben Jervey | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
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Surrounded by a vast expanse of white, the Arctic looks and feels completely untouched by man. Yet it is where the effects of our greenhouse gas emission are concentrated.
Dramatic Personal Photos of Antarctica, Greenland -- for Earth Day
Lea Lane | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
These photos show the beauty and fragility of our polar world, and I hope that they help remind us to treat our vulnerable planet with respect and love.
Study: Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster Than Expected
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years. A new analysis of changing conditions in the region, using ...
"I Heart Global Warming" - Current's "Vanguard" Special Report
Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green
If there's one place on Earth where climate change is being celebrated, it just might be Greenland. The giant island, which is actually a semi-auto...
New Greenland Ice Cracks Worry Scientists
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
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WASHINGTON — In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant c...
Russia's Other Front
Scott G. Borgerson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
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President Bush is right to demand an immediate end to the looting and shooting in Georgia by Russia, but he should also turn his attention to recent aggressive Russian activity in the opening Arctic.
Thomas Friedman: The Iceman Cometh
New York Times | Thomas Friedman | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green
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77 degrees 45 minutes N. latitude, 51 degrees 6 minutes W. longitude Jorgen Peder Steffensen made me an offer I couldn't refuse: "If you come to Cop...
Arctic Ice Melting At Record Rate
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has p...
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