Greenlands

Greenland’s glaciers are melting twice as fast this century, new study shows

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We have known for a while that Greenland’s ice sheet is melting worryingly fast. But a new study from Northwestern University and the University of Copenhagen has found that Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat. In their research, the team used satellite images and rarely seen … Read more

A Major Alarm Is Flashing Under Greenland’s Ice

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Climate change would be much worse if it weren’t for the oceans, which have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat humanity has pumped into the atmosphere. That warming of the oceans has already been devastating for the organisms that live there, but it’s also come back to bite us in a more unexpected way: … Read more