greenland
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NASA Space Lasers Offer ‘Fantastically Detailed’ Look At The World’s Ice Loss
The ice sheets are melting, and a new study research relies on state-of-the-art technology to reveal where the biggest losses are happening. It’s pretty freaking cool even if the results are bad news.
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Over-Hunting Walruses Likely Forced Vikings To Abandon Greenland
Scientists have struggled to understand why, after hundreds of years, Vikings suddenly abandoned their Greenland colony. New research suggests their economic over-reliance on walrus tusks—a valuable but dwindling trade commodity—had a lot to do with it.
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President Trump Denies Report That He Wants To Nuke Hurricanes
President Donald Trump is denying a report from Axios that claimed he wants to nuke hurricanes in order to neutralise them. Trump has called out Axios by name and insists that he “never said this,” according to a tweet sent earlier today from the G7 summit in France.
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‘I Am Afraid’: A First-Ever Poll Shows How Worried Greenlanders Are About Climate Change
Greenland is on the front lines of climate change. The northern hemispheric summer of fire and ice loss is indicative of the much larger shifts afoot. Yet while much has been made about the science of rising temperature, precious little research has been done on the impacts on the people who call the island home.