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From Ice Sheets To Oceans: The Climate Tipping Points That Worry Scientists
A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...
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Scientists Shed Light on the Mysterious ‘Cold Blob’ in the North Atlantic Amid a Search for Its Cause
In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...
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Antarctica’s ocean flip: Satellites catch sudden salt surge melting ice from below
A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...
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Antarctica's Ocean Is Mysteriously Getting Saltier, Spelling End to Sea Ice
The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.
The Cool Down2d
Scientists issue alarming prediction after studying strange Arctic heat wave: 'Helps determine the weather patterns that we get'
An unprecedented Arctic heat wave caused record high temperatures in Greenland and Iceland, raising major concerns among ...
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Project Iceworm: America’s Cold War Plot To Build A Nuclear City Underneath Greenland
As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...
Ocean and atmosphere equally responsible for Atlantic 'cold blob,' scientists find
A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...
The Cool Down on MSN3d
NASA makes surprising discovery after capturing satellite image of the Arctic: 'Implications of this loss are far-reaching'
NASA's Terra satellite recently captured the seasonal breakup of sea ice in Canada's Amundsen Gulf, according to NASA's Earth ...
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Glacial and Fast Ice Distributions in Southeast Greenland Fjords, Version 1 | National Snow and Ice Data Center
This data set provides spatial distributions of fast ice and glacial ice in eight fjords spanning the Southeast Greenland coast: Nansen, Kangerlusruaq, Ikertivaq, Skjoldungen, Tingmiarmiut, ...