Tag: Greenland
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Greenland Ice Sheet May Be More Resilient Than We Thought
New research shows that Greenland's ice sheet tends to melt in starts and stops, without regaining ice cover in between.
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Greenland Stymied on Request to Increase Whaling Quota
Latin American countries led opposition to the request, saying that Greenland's sale of whale meat to tourists was no different than ordinary, banned, commercial whaling.
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Greenland's Whale Meat Going More to Tourists Than Locals
Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption. A new investigation reveals however that it's tourists who are really eating the meat.
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Greenland's Ice Sheet May Melt Off Sooner Than Expected
A 1.6 degree rise in global temperatures could like spell doom for Greenland's important ice coverage -- and coastlines throughout the world, too.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Not Stopped By New Snowfall - Ties For Record Ice Loss
New research from the City University of New York shows how record ice loss can occur even in years without record-setting temperatures.
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New Atlas Recognizes World's Newest Island - Direct Result of Climate Change
Image: Wikimedia Uunartoq Qeqertaq is the world's newest island: translated from Inuit as "Warming Island," it was attached to a Greenland peninsula as recently as 2002. But Arctic ice began melting with increasing speed, and Uunartoq Qeqertaq was
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Then-and-Now Pics Reveal Stunning Greenland Glacier Melt
Greenland is melting. That's hardly a newsflash: retreating ice and vanishing glaciers in the Arctic have long been
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Following Arrest, Greenpeace Director Banned From Greenland
Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, arrested last week after scaling a Cairn Energy platform off the coast of Greenland, is now banned for a year from the country entirely.United Press International reports
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Greenland's Glaciers Adapt Each Summer to Increased Melting, Slowing Down Ice Movement
Some more hows and whys to the what of the fact that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting, and should it disappear completely there's 7 meters of sea level rise at the end of it all: New research published in
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Greenland's 2010 Ice Melt Season Up To 50 Days Longer Than Normal
It may be bitterly cold in the northeast US right now, unusually frigid along much of the East Coast, but Greenland and the Arctic are practically balmy--15-20°F above normal in December, as the New York Times points out. Going along with that is some
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise
We've all heard that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting
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Greenland Glacier Retreats One Mile Overnight! NASA Shows Satellite Photos
image: NASA NASA's just released some pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7--when an area of ice 2.7 square miles in size ( more than twice the size of New York City's Central Park),
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Greenland Rising as Ice Melts
Scientists are reporting that Greenland is rising as the large weight of ice pressing down on land is melting. And the country's elevation gains are speeding up. Glacial melt on Greenland is being watched very carefully
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Strange New Fish Discovered Near Greenland
I was going to say this fish has a face that only a mother could love, but chances are she just laid some eggs and got the hell out of there. But it turns out that this fish, a "longhead dreamer" anglerfish, is not alone
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Ice Is Melting Faster Everywhere
Click for a larger image of map. This Eco-Economy Indicator is a guest post written by my colleague Alexandra Giese, a staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute. From the Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic interior and the mountainous peaks of Peru,
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Good News/Bad News - Amazon Deforestation Reaches Record Low, But Greenland Ice Melt Accelerating
A mixed bag in climate change news this morning: Satellite imagery reveals that Amazon deforestation has dropped to the lowest rate since Brazil began monitoring efforts, President Inácio Lula da Silva announced yesterday
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Arctic Ocean Ice-Free in Summer by 2015, New Research Shows - Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Rapid Losses, Too
Anyone keeping up on the pace of Arctic summer sea ice melting, take note: Mongabay is reporting on new research presented by the National Space Institute at Technical University of Denmark (and others) which says that if
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Greenland Shark Fat Biofuel? Not Such a Good Idea
The title says it all: Physorg details proposed plans in Uummannaq, Greenland to use fat from Greenland Sharks, many of which
