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 Stories About: Antarctica AND climate AND Greenland AND news
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Sheet Happens ... Faster
Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says |
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11 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says We hate to give you bad news without some good, so here goes. The bad news from a study published this week in Science is that, by comparing satellite data from 2002-2005 to earlier data, researchers have determined that Greenland's ice sheet is melting about three times faster than it was five years ago. Put another way, about 57 cubic ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag?
Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says |
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24 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Let the Catastrophe Out of the Bag? Earth warming, ice melting, seas rising, umpteenth study says Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions could -- maaaaybe -- stave off a catastrophic rise in sea levels that in coming centuries could return the earth to conditions last seen 129,000 years ago. We would never have guessed, but fortunately scientists keep pointing it out -- as in this week's climate-disruption-centric issue ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans
Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected |
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03 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Melts in Your South, Not in Your Plans Antarctica ice sheets melting faster than expected Another day, another round of studies showing the world's ice sheets melting faster than expected, another outbreak of indifference from the public, another resigned sigh from enviros, another bout of empty rhetoric from legislators. K, see you tomorrow! Oh, what, you want details? All right: The lucky ice sheets featured in thes ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics) |
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change |
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25 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics) |
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