cryosphere
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Greenland Faces a Century of Unprecedented Ice Loss
Hey, we haven’t checked in on the Greenland in a while, let’s see what’s hap… Oh. Oh no.
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Scientists Find Dozens Of Lakes Buried Far Below Greenland’s Ice
For decades, scientists working in Antarctica have been documenting subglacial lakes, bodies of water buried kilometres beneath the ice. They’ve spotted more than 400 of them, and even drilled into a few and found evidence for both living and long-dead lifeforms. But despite their ubiquity at the bottom of the world, no one had really…
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New Study Shows Just How Frighteningly Fast Greenland Is Melting
In July 2012, a spate of warm weather caused nearly the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet to begin melting, an event with no precedent in the satellite record. A new study shows this massive melt-out wasn’t just an anomaly compared with the last 40 years, but the last 350. Unfortunately, the study also…
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Enormous, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Strike Tibet
When the first deadly avalanche struck the Aru Range in Tibet on July 17th, scientists were puzzled. But when a second enormous ice slide occurred just a few kilometers south and two months later, they were shocked.