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Rapid Draining of Greenland Lakes Signals Massive Melting, Researchers Say
2015-01-22 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Researchers have discovered craters left behind when two lakes under the Greenland ice sheet rapidly drained recently -- an indication that a massive amount of meltwater has started overflowing the ice sheet's natural plumbing and is causing "blowouts" that drain lakes away, they say. One of the two lakes once held billions of gallons of water and emptied to form a mile-wide crater in just a few weeks, researchers report in the journal The Cryosphere. The other lake, described this week in the journal...
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New Lakes Discovered Under Greenland Ice Hint at Warming
2015-01-22 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: The discovery of two large lakes hidden beneath Greenland's ice suggests that climate change now cuts all the way to the bottom of the ice sheet, according to two new studies. The lakes, on opposite coasts, were only spotted because meltwater from Greenland's surface triggered gushing floods in the fall of 2011. Billions of gallons of water had flushed some 30 miles (50 kilometers) to the sea, leaving behind sunken craters in the surface of the ice above the lakes. Researchers found the fractured...
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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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01.21.15 -- Great Lakes Pollution No Longer Driven By Airborne Sources
2015-01-19 00:16:46| pollutiononline Home Page
01/21/15 Pollution Online Newsletter
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In shadow of glacial lakes, Pakistans mountain communities look to climate adaptation
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster. With plenty of fertile land and fresh water, this scenic mountain valley would be an ideal dwelling place - if not for the constant threat of the surrounding glacial lakes bursting their ridges and gushing down the hillside, leaving a trail of destruction behind. "We can safely say that over 16,000 have been displaced due to [glacial lake outburst...
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