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Scientists say Greenland just opened up major new floodgate of ice into the ocean
2015-11-13 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As the world prepares for the most important global climate summit yet in Paris later this month, news from Greenland could add urgency to the negotiations. For another major glacier appears to have begun a rapid retreat into a deep underwater basin, a troubling sign previously noticed at Greenlands Jakobshavn Glacier and also in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica. And in all of these cases, warm ocean waters reaching the deep bases of marine glaciers appears to be a major cause. The...
Land-facing, southwest Greenland Ice Sheet movement decreasing
2015-10-29 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of decades of increasing temperatures and surface melting, the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on land has been slowing down, according to a new study being published by the journal Nature on Oct. 29. Researchers derived their results by tracking ice sheet movement through Landsat satellite images taken from 1985 to 2014 across a roughly 3,088-square-mile (8000-square-kilometer) region in southwest Greenland. They found that, between 2007...
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Greenland Ice Sheet Has Unique 'Plumbing' System, New Study Shows
2015-10-09 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: "Our research reveals details about the plumbing system beneath the Greenland ice sheet, which is important because the configuration of that system has an impact on the flow speed of the overlying ice," Dr. Steven Palmer, lead author of the study from the Geography Department at the University of Exeter, explained in a news release. For their study, researchers examined the flow paths of a subglacial lake that drained beneath the ice sheet in 2011. They discovered that the water drained from...
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Greenland fines Greenpeace for drilling rig stunts
2015-09-07 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Greenland court on Monday fined Greenpeace over $26,000 for disrupting oil drilling off the island's coast, the latest chapter in the environmental group's fight to stop industrial development in the Arctic. Greenpeace activists boarded or tried to board an exploration rig belonging to Cairn Energy three times in 2011. The Edinburgh-based company drilled five prospective wells that year but none found commercial quantities of hydrocarbons. Greenpeace's campaigns in the Arctic have run into trouble...
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Greenland Glacier Sheds Manhattan-Sized Chunk
2015-08-24 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clapway: A massive chunk of ice, the size of Manhattan, has been severed from Greenland`s Jakobshavn glacier, BBC News reports. ONE OF THE FASTEST GLACIERS IN GREENLAND During the summer, the glacier movies at ten meters a day, according to scientists, a pace which makes it one of the fastest glaciers in Greenland. Using the European Union`s Sentinel satellites, the European Space Agency has been monitoring the glacier and its activity. According to the European Space Agency, the berg that separated...
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