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Already, researchers have documented the collapse of Greenland’s ice shelves and the disappearance of Arctic “ghost islands”, which turned out to be melting icebergs. Some scientists worry ...
The vast majority of Greenland consists of ice sheets that have, as celebrity scientist Bill ... there's a non-zero chance that memorabilia from past VPs either populates its shelves intentionally or ...
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...
The story of Titanic is a well-known one, with exhaustive detail available on everything from the construction of the ship in Belfast's shipyards to the decomposing wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic ...
A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km ...
In addition to field work on the island, NASA uses an array of satellites to keep a close eye on the shrinking ice shelf. That data shows that since 2002, Greenland has lost an average of 268 ...
The question is whether mining companies can overcome the headaches inherent in extracting rare earths from Greenland’s ice-free yet still frigid edges. An outfit would have to ship in all their ...
This lake formed in 2012, a particularly bad melt year for Greenland. Anchored in ice, the AMIGOS-II instrument can study water underneath Antarctic ice shelves. In California, cities and counties ...
Greenland is already experiencing negative environmental impacts due to rising temperatures that are melting year-round sea ice and causing “ice quakes.” Greenland has also suffered another ...
Newly released satellite footage shows the world’s largest iceberg running aground near a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean last month.   The timelapse video, published by Colorado State ...
This is one of thousands of giant sinkholes, or moulins, in Greenland where water is draining through the ice sheet into the ocean. Meltwater from Greenland is the largest current contributor to ...