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Surprising "Lake" Bigger Than West Virginia Found Inside Greenland Ice
2014-01-03 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A vast aquifer "lake" lies trapped under southeastern Greenland, scientists report, based on ice core results. The finding may help reveal a changing climate's effects on the world's massive, but shrinking, ice sheets. Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, covers some 656,000 square miles (1,710,000 square kilometers). Together with Antarctica's even more vast ice sheet, its melting in a warming climate is a big factor in projections of future sea-level rise. That is why the...
A Newly Discovered Underground Lake in Greenland Will Help Us Understand Climate Change
2013-12-27 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The Earth may be more than 4.5 billion years old, but it can still surprise us. Scientists have discovered a gigantic liquid water reservoir underneath Greenland`s massive ice sheet. (The discovery was reported in an article in this week`s edition of Nature Geoscience.) Uncovered accidentally by a team of glaciologists who were drilling ice cores in southeastern Greenland in 2011, the aquifer is more than 27,000 sq. miles (69,930 sq. km) large--bigger than West Virginia--according to data from NASA`s...
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Glaciologists Reveal Findings on Greenland Aquifer
2013-12-25 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: When a Greenland aquifer was accidently discovered by glaciologists in 2011 during a snow accumulation study, little could be done to continue the study of the aquifer because their tools were not suited to work in an aquatic environment. So this past year, a team of glaciologists led another expedition to southeast Greenland in order to find out more about this liquid reservoir. Southeast Greenland is a region of high snow accumulation. Researchers now believe that the thick snow cover insulates...
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Statoil and partners win Greenland licence
2013-12-24 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has been awarded block 6 in the East Greenland licence round along with its partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil.
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'Massive' reservoir melt water found under Greenland ice
2013-12-22 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Researchers say they have discovered a large reservoir of melt water that sits under the Greenland ice sheet all year round. The scientists say the water is stored in the air space between particles of ice, similar to the way that fruit juice stays liquid in a slush drink. The aquifer, which covers an area the size of Ireland, could yield important clues to sea level rise. The research is published in the journal, Nature Geoscience. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet has been a significant...
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