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Accelerated Ice Melt Causing Iceland to Rise
2015-02-02 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Parts of Iceland are rising, and the culprit may be climate change. GPS measurements show that land in the central and southern parts of Iceland have been rising at a faster pace every year, beginning at about the same time as the onset of the ever-increasing melt of the island's eponymous ice due to rising temperatures, a new study finds. One of 62 GPS stations scattered around Iceland that have detected the land rising in response to glacier melt. Langjökull glacier is in the background....
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Iceland Rising as Climate Change Causes Glaciers to Melt, Researchers Say
2015-01-29 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The crust under Iceland is rebounding as climate change melts the island's great ice caps, researchers report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The current rapid rising, or uplift, of the Icelandic crust is a result of accelerated melting of the island's glaciers and coincides with a regional warming trend that began roughly 30 years ago, the scientists said. Some areas in south-central Iceland are moving upward as much as 1.4 inches per year a surprisingly high speed, the researchers...
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Ice researchers capture catastrophic Greenland melt
2015-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Over a few summer days in 2012, nearly all of the Greenland ice sheet surface thawed right under the feet of a UCLA-led team of scientists. What was not absorbed into snow quickly gathered and flowed across the 20,000-square-mile sheet, coalescing into roaring turquoise rivers. And then most of it disappeared. Where all that water went may seem an easy guess. But that`s just the problem with Greenland ice science -- some of the guesses have been wrong, according to a study published online...
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Land Disturbances Darken Snow and Increase Melt Rate, Researchers Say
2015-01-08 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Land disturbances, such as agricultural practices and development, may have a big impact on snow purity and melt rates, according to a large-scale survey of impurities in North American snow by researchers at the University of Washington. During a nearly 10,000-mile trek across North American snowfields, the researchers were particularly interested in the Bakken oil fields of northwest North Dakota. Before undertaking the study, they predicted that diesel emissions and air pollution associated with...
Most of Alaska's Permafrost Could Melt This Century
2014-12-19 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The permafrost in some of Alaska's most iconic national parks could all but disappear this century, new research suggests. Right now, half of the ground in Denali National Park's is frozen year-round, but if global warming continues at the current pace, just 1 percent of this land could remain permafrost by the year 2100, according to new research presented here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Not only could vast swaths of the Alaskan tundra transform into swampy bogs,...
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