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Greenland Glacier About To Lose Manhattan-Sized Ice Chunk (Video)
It appears that the largest Arctic glacier, the Petermann glacier in Greenland, is about to get a bit smaller. Reports from scientists monitoring the situation indicate that a chuck of ice the size of Manhattan (100 sq. kilometers) is about the fall
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Silent Snow Documentary Shows Greenland's Plight
Silent Snow is a powerful short film documenting the pollution that affects the Inuits of Greenland. The pollution circulates from all over the world up to Greenland where it concentrates in the fish, seals and whales
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NASA Loses 90 Rubber Duckies in the Arctic, Offers Reward for Return
I admit that this one isn't the deepest piece of news out there, but I find it too funny (and somehow interesting) to pass up repeating. The Guardian is reporting that NASA wants its rubber duckies back. And if you happen to be
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Greenland Questions Global Warming Controls While Embracing Independence
There's always an irony or two in the daily news, and today is no exception: Greenland, the world's largest island, is suffering from the effects of global warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe (except for
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How Do Icebergs Form? Scientists Explain in New Study
It's not quite rocket science, but, as it turns out, it does involve a healthy dose of math and physics. The new "law" coined by Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, and a team of other U.S.-based
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Greenlanders See Independence and Natural Riches as the Upside of Climate Change
Where many see a bleak future in climate change, characterized by melting ice caps, water shortages, acidic oceans and mass extinctions, others see an opportunity. Or, to be more precise, lots of dollar signs. Nature's Nicola Jones
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"Rubber" Duckies Deployed to Track Glacier Movements
This story seems to be one of those you couldn't make up even if you tried. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has dropped 90 rubber ducks into the ice of the Jakobshavn Greenland glacier in an attempt to study why
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Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72% of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers
Recently there's been a whole bucket full of Arctic climate change bad news, including the news that 83 square miles of Ellesmere Island's ice shelf has been lost this summer alone due to warming temperatures.
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Watch Greenland Melting - on the Icecam
To raise awareness of global warming, one of the two main newspapers in Greenland, Sermitslaq, has set up an 'ice cam' located on one of the largest inland glaciers, Ilulissat, to show it melting - as you watch! Updated hourly. It seems a sad state
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Greenland Wants To Bottle Iceberg Water
It's no secret that TreeHugger isn't fond of single-use bottles of water - there seems no trapping of modern life easier to let go of, when municipalities spend oodles to make most tap water clean, and reusable bottles come in
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Satellite Images Reveal Two of Greenland's Biggest Glaciers Are Losing More Ice
Although researchers may still largely be dealing in uncertainties when it comes to predicting Greenland's exact fate, the data and observations that continue to trickle in suggest a "greener" (see: ice-free) future for the island nation. According to
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Coal's Toxic Legacy Revealed in Greenland Ice Core
Proving that Big Coal's nefarious influence knows no bounds, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that pollution from coal burning has contaminated the Arctic for the last 100 years. Measurements taken
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Study Predicts Amount of CO2 Emissions that Could Lead to Greenland Melting
The chorus of bad news for Greenland's fate has been growing louder in recent months. I've written at length about numerous studies suggesting that Greenland may not last much longer in light of rapidly increasing carbon
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Melting Arctic Ice Increases Permafrost Thaw Farther Inland Than Previously Thought
In one more example of the interwoven and far reaching consequences of climate change, a new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research indicates that as Arctic sea ice starts melting more quickly, permafrost
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Is it Time to Bid Greenland Farewell?
Are Greenland's days already numbered? And, if so, can anything be done to avert the looming disaster posed by a massive sea level rise? The simple answer is that though Greenland's fate is not yet set into stone (at least when it comes to a specific
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Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars Shoots First-Ever Arctic Music Video
For the many years we've been watching music videos seeing one filmed in the Arctic is definitely a first. The band 30 Seconds to Mars, with lead vocalist and "My So Called Life" heartthrob Jared Leto, was determined to make it happen. Their song
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Go Fly a Kite (and Sail a Ship)
A large kite installed on a merchant ship is expected to save shipping fuel costs by up to 20% and do its part for the environment. The kite-fitted MV Beluga Skysails cargo ship will make its maiden voyage in early 2008 and its inventors are hoping to
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Greenland Ice Melting at Record Rate
Speaking at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, painted a grim picture of Greenland's current state, describing the amount of ice it lost over the past year
