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Greenlands lakes fast disappearing
2015-01-22 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NVO: Rising temperatures have been at the centre of scientific study. Its impact could be easily felt on many hotspots across the world. Right now the Meltwater lakes in Greenland are bearing the burnt. Reports have surfaced that how they have been found to be fast draining off. And the culprit is none other than the rising temperatures in the region. How intense has been this can be understood from the fact that the lakes are disappearing within weeks. Two sub-glacial lakes have suffered the...
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Greenland's 'Supraglacial' Lakes Could Trigger Future Ice Loss
2014-12-15 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Previous predictions of Greenland ice loss may have been greatly underestimated, as new research shows the region's "supraglacial" lakes could trigger faster ice melt in the future. Supraglacial lakes are bodies of water that form on the ice sheet surface from melted snow and ice. According to the new study, these lakes will migrate farther inland over the next 50 years, potentially causing drastic changes in Greenland's ice sheet flow and contributing to rising sea levels. "When you pour pancake...
Building an unmanned hydropower plant beneath Greenland's glaciers
2014-09-30 17:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World
As a project manager, I haven't often been involved in projects as exciting as the construction of an unmanned hydropower plant buried underneath Greenland's ice cap and a layer of permafrost. read more
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Greenlands dark snow may start global warming feedback loop
2014-09-18 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Anyone who has ever slipped over on black ice in the dead of winter will attest to how dangerous it is. But a darkening of the Greenland ice sheet could impact upon the entire world, as the hastening trend reduces the Arctics ability to reflect sunlight and increases global warming. The worlds leading expert on the ice that covers the huge expanse of Greenland has told The Independent that he was stunned to see how much darker it has become in the past year warning it could start a hugely...
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Scientists find evidence of long-term warming inside Greenland's ice sheet
2014-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis on the temperature, structure and composition of the hard-packed snow that covers that island, conditions deep beneath the surface were fairly consistent: white, firm, cold and dry. If you could imagine cutting a wall of Styrofoam, thats what it was like, said Benson, now a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Related: How dust...
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