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Seven Newly Named Glaciers Honour The Satellites That Helped Discover Them
Glaciers and other icy landscapes are often named after the scientists who first set eyes on them. But it isn’t just human eyes spotting new features in Earth’s frozen wastes; many of these remote landforms are discovered and detailed via satellite. So, shouldn’t the robots get some credit, too?
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Climate Change Could Thaw The Home Of Humanity’s Doomsday Vault
If climate change has its way, the seeds the world is saving for doomsday might just be able to grow in the Arctic, according to a report released Monday by the Norwegian government.
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Greenland’s Ice Can No Longer Handle Hot Summers
A team of scientists is warning that the double whammy of a naturally recurring weather pattern and rising temperatures is triggering dramatic melting on the Greenland ice sheet — a problem the researchers liken to recent global coral bleaching events, which have been fuelled by the one-two punch of El Niño and climate change.
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New Super-High-Resolution Map Shows Antarctica In Unprecedented Detail
There have been a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late, but a new terrain map of Antarctica is still special. It isn’t just the highest resolution ever produced for the frozen continent, but the highest resolution for any continent, period.