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Melting glacier? Yawn. Climate change is boring, worthy and terrifying
2015-11-13 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its the existential threat to our species, and it bores us to tears. Admit it. You think the consequences of human-driven climate change are terrifying, but it seems too abstract, too technical and too long term. A recent poll in the US found that, while most Americans accepted that the climate was indeed changing, less than a quarter admitted to be either extremely or very worried about it. So the latest scientific reports should have the effect of grabbing us by the lapels and admonishing us...
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Ancient pollen reveals droughts between Sierra Nevada glacier surges
2015-11-01 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Hidden below the surface of California's Central Valley are pollen grains from the Pleistocene that are providing scientists with clues to the severity of droughts that struck the region between glacial periods. The Pleistocene -- the age of mammoths and mastodons -- occurred between 1.8 million and 11,500 years ago. For this new study, scientists dug up Pleistocene sediment samples containing buried pollen from the Central Valley. They found that pollen samples dated from interglacial periods --...
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Greenland Glacier Sheds Manhattan-Sized Chunk
2015-08-24 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clapway: A massive chunk of ice, the size of Manhattan, has been severed from Greenland`s Jakobshavn glacier, BBC News reports. ONE OF THE FASTEST GLACIERS IN GREENLAND During the summer, the glacier movies at ten meters a day, according to scientists, a pace which makes it one of the fastest glaciers in Greenland. Using the European Union`s Sentinel satellites, the European Space Agency has been monitoring the glacier and its activity. According to the European Space Agency, the berg that separated...
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World's fastest-melting glacier loses massive chunk in 2 days
2015-08-23 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: One of the world's most rapidly flowing glaciers may have just set another record, and it's not one not that bodes well for low-lying coastal cities and nations around the world, which are vulnerable to sea level rise. During the past month, a NASA satellite captured images showing a sudden loss of ice, also known as a calving event (or in this case, possibly multiple events) from Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier between July 31 and August 16, 2015. Images posted on the Arctic sea ice blog,...
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Wildfire Rages Across Glacier National Park
2015-07-23 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Firefighters battling a blaze in Montanas Glacier National Park may see relief from the hot, dry and windy conditions that have worked against them, as a cold front sweeps toward the Northern Rocky Mountains this weekend. A severe drought has fueled multiple fires burning in the Western U.S., threatening homes and watersheds in California and Washington state. "Much cooler temperatures are expected in Glacier National Park the next few days, with highs in the 50s on Sunday, and possibly staying...
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