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Greenland's gravity is weakening and here is the 30 million tonnes reasonGreenland is losing an estimated thirty million tonnes of floating ice hourly. This rapid melting, driven by climate change, accelerates gl...- Can thickening Arctic ice with seawater slow its decline? Successful trial faces major hurdlesScientists tested a method to thicken Arctic sea ice by pumping seawater. This process created a thicker and more reflective ice layer duri...
- European heatwave's unlikely accomplice: an ocean 'cold blob'Often called the "cold blob", this swath of water in the North Atlantic has bucked the global warming trend, cooling even as the planet's t...
- 56 million dead, one frozen secret: Antarctica outed the deadliest secret in human historyAntarctic ice cores climate change: Scientists found ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. This ice holds records of Earth's atmosphere for...
- A Greenland ice core reads back almost 12,000 years of mercury fallout; humans were leaving traces thousands of years before the first factoriesGreenland's ice sheet reveals a 12,000-year mercury record, showing human contamination far predates industrial eras. Early Bronze Age smel...
- What is Zombie ice? Read on to find its threatening impacts on the global sea levels'Zombie ice' will continue to flow into the ocean regardless of what climate actions the world takes now. The unavoidable rise in the sea l...
- Study says the speed of ice loss is increasing, Earth losing 1.3 trillion tonnes a yearThe researchers noted that ice melt across the globe raises sea levels, increases the risk of flooding to coastal communities, and threaten...
- Emissions to add 15 inches to global sea level rise by 2100: NASA-led studyGreenland and Antarctica's ice sheets could together contribute more than 38 centimetres to global sea level rise by 2100, if greenhouse ga...
- Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1...
- Antarctica may drive rapid sea-level rise under climate change: Study
- Greenland may lose 4.5 per cent ice by end of century: StudyGreenland may lose 4.5 per cent of its ice by the end of this century - contributing up to 13 inches of sea level rise - if worldwide green...
- NASA reveals new mode of ice loss in GreenlandWashington, May 26 (IANS) A new NASA study has revealed a new mode of ice loss in Greenland that may increase the potential for sustained l...
- Glacier shape can predict melting riskWashington, April 18 (IANS) Analysing how glaciers are shaped can help scientists identify which one of them are susceptible to thinning, s...
- Some of Greenland's coastal ice may be lost by 2100: Study
- Greenland ice loss 7 per cent faster than previously thoughtNew York, Sep 22 (IANS) Greenland lost nearly 2,700 gigatons of ice from 2003-2013, not about 2,500 gigatons as scientists previously thoug...
- Greenland melting tied to shrinking Arctic sea iceA new study has found that the shrinking Arctic sea ice during summers enhances the flow of warm, moist air over Greenland, increasing the ...
- Climate change altering Greenland ice sheetFirn is multi-year compacted snow that is not as dense as glacier ice. Instead, it forms a porous near-surface layer over the ice sheet.
- Sea levels across the world to rise faster than imaginedSea levels across the world are all set to rise much faster than imagined, thanks to the Greenland ice sheet, known to be stable till now, ...
- Melting glaciers also behind sea-level riseWorld's shrinking glaciers contributed to almost a third of the sea-level rise between 2003 and 2009, a new study has found.
- Polar Ice-sheet melting jumps three-fold: NASAThe combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years says a landmark st...
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