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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...
Glaciers are melting fast—putting millions at risk for flash floods
Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.
The Alps Are Melting: Four Decades of Glacier Loss Captured From Space
The Alps, home to the iconic Aletsch Glacier, are undergoing a dramatic transformation. Satellite imagery spanning four ...
MIT Technology Review5d
How to save a glacier
Scientists have some wild ideas to slow sea-level rise caused by melting ice. Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see ...
The New York Times5d
Global Sea Ice Hits a New Low
Melting sea ice also has negative implications for marine life, tourism in polar regions and global shipping. It’s important for military activities, Indigenous communities in Alaska and the ...
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Polar Bear Swims 687 Km Across Melting Arctic For 9 Days Straight | Watch Viral Video
A female polar bear swam 687 km across the freezing Beaufort Sea over nine days, a feat first reported in 2011. The video ...
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Melt madness: Arctic sea ice shrinks to record springtime low
Sea ice is frozen ocean water that has an annual cycle of melting during the summer and refreezing in winter. The sea ice floats on the ocean. The region reaches its maximum extent of sea ice in ...
Space.com16d
Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
16, when seasonal sea ice melt was at its height ... miles of ice (3 million square kilometers),an area bigger than Alaska, Texas, California and Montana combined — and the pace appears to ...