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Belgian, Canadian first to circle Greenland ice sheet
2014-06-13 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Belgian and a Canadian have became the first people to circle the Greenland ice sheet, covering an Arctic record 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) in 55 days by using kites to pull their sleds and skis. Belgian adventurer Dixie Dansercoer, who also set a record for the longest unaided expedition in Antarctica in 2012, and Canadian Eric McNair-Landry used the typical polar wind patterns to set out a circular route to cover the longest distance. "It was a first because people never thought of...
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Great Lakes Break the Ice after Record-Long 7 Months Frozen
2014-06-12 20:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Most of the United States is gearing up for the fast approaching summer months, traces of the icy winter far behind them, but the Great Lakes are just thawing out after a record-breaking seven months of being frozen. The NOAA declared all the Great Lakes officially ice-free Wednesday morning after more than 80 percent of its surface was encrusted with ice for seven months - an occurrence that hasn't happened since the 1970s, according to Live Science. Lake Superior, the deepest, largest and...
Greenland Glacier Lost Mountain Range Worth Ice Last Month
2014-06-10 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Magazine: For those who sleep soundly at night by telling themselves they'll be long gone by the time climate change matters: Environmentalist Bill McKibben points us toward glacier-watchers reporting that a gigantic one in Greenland has lost up to ten cubic kilometers in less than 30 days. Greenland, that's far away, right? And what's a cubic kilometer anyway? Writes Robert Scribbler: Think of something the size of a mountain. Now multiply that by ten and you end up with a veritable mountain range....
Soot and Dirt Is Melting Snow and Ice Around the World
2014-06-10 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It's easy to imagine new snow so bright that we must avert our eyes even while wearing sunglasses. What scientists are discovering, though, is this brilliant whiteness of snow and ice is increasingly being dimmed by air pollution. From Greenland's ice sheets to Himalayan glaciers and the snowpacks of western North America, layers of dust and soot are darkening the color of glaciers and snowpacks, causing them to absorb more solar heat and melt more quickly, and earlier in spring. This trend...
Dust Particles Are Speeding Up the Melting of Greenland's Ice Shelf
2014-06-10 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: In a paper recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers argue that, according to evidence at hand, Greenland's ice shelf has high chances to get a whole lot smaller way sooner than anyone would expect. Since the melting of this massive block of ice is expected to translate into a noteworthy increase in global sea levels, specialists warn that, the faster it melts, the sooner and the worse coastal communities could be affected by this phenomenon. What's interesting...
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