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An 'ice-free' summer awaits the Arctic within ten years, study finds!
Although Arctic ice has been steadily diminishing over the past fifty years, the most dramatic decl…
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Wind is thawing Greenland, but also helping Antarctica retain its ice sheets somehow
Even if you leave the various glacier-laced mountains out of the equation, the ice sheets in Greenl…
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Greenland’s ice sheets are melting too quickly, and we’re already halfway to the point of no return
Imagine you stand by the ocean line at the beach, where the rolling waves periodically drench your …
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Antarctica's sea ice is decreasing, but that seems to also be increasing snowfall over the continent!
Antarctica's ice sheet, like Greenland, comprises a massive reservoir of freshwater. The primary so…
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Lost samples from a secret army base reveal that Greenland's ice vanished 416,000 years ago. That means it could melt way faster than expected.
The Cold War-era mission uncovered evidence of catastrophic melt when the atmosphere had 50% less c…
Maiya Focht
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Sea levels rose by one centimetre in past two years; last eight years might be the hottest ever: WMO
In fact, the pace of sea-level rising has doubled since 1993, which could have potential calamitous…
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The summit of Greenland got rain, rather than snow, for the first time on record
Melting on Greenland, which has the largest ice mass in the northern hemisphere, contributes to ris…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Map shows the ice sheets and glaciers melting that scientists most fear will be the source of catastrophic rising sea levels
Sea levels are rising steadily each year due to global warming, but these glaciers and ice sheets m…
Marianne Guenot,Annie Fu
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Greenland's vast ice sheet is being turned black by algae, part of a vicious cycle making it melt faster
Climate change is accelerating the proliferation of these algae, one expert said. This in turn acce…
Marianne Guenot
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Thanks to a secret Cold War project, researchers found fossilized plants 4,500 feet under Greenland's ice sheet
Fossilized plants found deep below the ice suggest the ice sheet disappeared at least once in the l…
Aria Bendix
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Greenland's melting ice sheet has 'passed the point of no return,' scientists say, dooming it to disappear
Rising temperatures have driven Greenland's glaciers past a critical tipping point, where snowfall …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A renowned climate scientist once compared to 'an icy Indiana Jones' has died after falling through ice thinned by melting
One of the world's leading climate scientists died on Saturday after falling through part of Greenl…
Susie Neilson
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Elite cocktail bars in the UAE have a new way to draw in customers: luxury ice from arctic glaciers
A company in Greenland is harvesting ice from the country's shrinking glaciers and selling it to el…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Earth has lost a 'staggering' 28 trillion tonnes of ice to global warming in the last 23 years, UK scientists find
The melting glaciers and ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise dramatically, possibly reaching …
Sophia Ankel
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Enough ice melted in Greenland over the last 2 days it could cover the entire surface area of Florida in 4 inches of water
The largest ice mass in the northern hemisphere lost more than 8.5 billion tons of surface mass on …
Vanessa Gu
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'The Day After Tomorrow' film foretold a real and troubling trend: The Atlantic ocean's circulation system is weakening
New research suggests the type of climate shift depicted in the film "The Day After Tomorrow" is po…
Aylin Woodward
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The amount of warming that world leaders collectively agreed to avoid? It's inevitable in the next 20 years, a new report suggests.
In the Paris agreement, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A new …
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Earth has tilted on its axis differently over the last few decades due to melting ice caps
Scientists say the Earth's axis tilt has changed due to melting ice caps over the last few decades.
Aylin Woodward
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Greenland's ice sheet is melting 7 times faster than it was in the early 90s, a study shows. It has lost more than 4.2 trillion tons of ice.
This summer, extreme melting followed the hottest month ever recorded (July), as an intense heat wa…
Aylin Woodward
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After decades of climate change, 42 square miles of ice broke away from the largest remaining Arctic shelf and shattered
The Spalte Glacier in northeast Greenland has split off the Arctic's largest ice shelf and is adrif…