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This Year’s Arctic Sea Ice Is Failing to Form, Raising a Huge ‘Red Flag’
Arctic ice is seasonal. It melts down in the summer sun and relative warmth, then freezes back up when fall’s chill comes. Or at least, it should be that way. But right now it’s late October, and the ice in Siberia’s Laptav Sea still hasn’t refrozen. It’s the latest ice-free date the sea has seen…
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Greenland Faces a Century of Unprecedented Ice Loss
Hey, we haven’t checked in on the Greenland in a while, let’s see what’s hap… Oh. Oh no.
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Antarctica and Greenland Are on Track for the Worst-Case Climate Scenario
As the world’s ice sheets have been cracking up and melting down, climatologists have warned that further decimation could cause devastating levels of sea level rise. Now, a recent study shows that ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a pace on par with the worst-case climate scenarios scientists have predicted, putting coastal…
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During the Last Ice Age, Erratic Temperatures in Greenland Triggered Changes All Over the World
During the Last Glacial Period some 11,500 years ago, Greenland went through massive changes called interstadial events. Then, it quickly oscillated between lower and higher temperatures, which melted and then refroze (and then melted again) massive ice sheets in the region. Geological records appear to show that around the same time that this was happening in…