greenland ice sheet
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Plant Fossils Found on a Cold War Expedition Contain an Ominous Climate Message
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a…
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Geoengineering Wouldn’t Be Enough To Stop Greenland From Melting
When the Greenland ice sheet went into a record meltdown in the summer of 2019, it raised a very terrifying spectre of the future. Here was a quickening pace since the 1980s”melting in a way scientists didn’t expect to happen for decades.
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Remnants Of Ancient River Network Lie Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
British geophysicists have discovered evidence of an ancient drainage network buried beneath Greenland’s ice sheet that once extended across nearly a fifth of its total surface. Some of the channels within this system were about a 1.4km deep and over 12km wide.