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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold WarEra Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military
2016-08-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold Warera US military base known as Camp Century - also known as "the city under the ice" - could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder) and others. When Camp Century does melt, there will likely be significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), sewage, radioactive coolant, wastewater, and diesel fuel, amongst other things,...
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Climate change: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years as melting rate triples
2016-07-21 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Its no news that Greenland is in serious trouble -- but now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet lost a whopping 1 trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. Its the latest story in a long series of increasingly...
Greenland was hotter than New York City last week
2016-06-15 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Greenland, the Arctic nation that is basically one huge ice cube, is feeling rather balmy lately. The island experienced the highest temperatures ever recorded on June 9, when air temperature in Nuuk, the capital city, soared to 75 degrees F. While that may seem like no sweat, the average high for this time of year between 1961 and 1990 was just 44 degrees F, and even Greenland`s hottest month rarely broke 50. But that was then. That record-breaking day in June was hotter in Nuuk than it was...
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Greenland Hits Record 75°F, Sets Melt Record As Hottest Year
2016-06-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Last Thursday, Greenland`s capital hit 75°F, which was hotter than New York City. This was the highest temperature ever recorded there in June - in a country covered with enough ice to raise sea levels more than 20 feet. It comes hot on the heels of the hottest May on record for the entire globe, according to NASA. As the map above shows, May temperature anomalies in parts of the Arctic and Antarctic were as high as 17°F (9.4°C) above the 1951-1980 average for the month. And this all follows...
At ground zero of warming, Greenland seeks to unlock frozen assets
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On top of the world, by a fjord in western Greenland, a remote hydro power plant is buzzing with extra water from the melt of ancient glaciers. This island at ground zero of global warming is seeking to be one of the few places on Earth to benefit. Outside the Buksefjord plant, the biggest of five hydro-electricity stations built in Greenland since 1993 in a push to move away from imported oil, cod that usually only thrive further south can be seen swimming in the clear water. And a worker...
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