Study claims sea ice triggered the Little Ice Age in the 1300sA new study has been published that has found sea ice can cause climate change. The study has found that sea ice isn’t simply a passive responder to climate change. According to the study, the growth of sea ice could have contributed to the demise of Norse colonies in Greenland during the 14th....
How much will polar ice sheets add to sea level rise?Over 99% of terrestrial ice is bound up in the ice sheets covering Antarctic and Greenland. Even partial melting of this ice due to climate change will significantly contribute to sea level rise. But how much exactly? For the first time ever, glaciologists, oceanographers, and climatologists from 13....
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World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all ScandinavianInvaders, pirates, warriors - the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond. Now cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Euro....
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Huge Calving at the Arctic Ice Shelf: the Massive Chunk is Larger Than ParisRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km block broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland, which t....
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Gerard Butler Sci-Fi Thriller 'Greenland' Delayed to Q4 in U.S.STX is moving Gerard Butler’s sci-fi thriller “Greenland” from Sept. 25 in the U.S. to an undisclosed date in the fourth quarter. The film has opened in overseas territories, including Belgium (July 29), France (Aug. 5) and Scandinavia (Aug 12), and taken in $11.5 million, led by $....
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Climate change: Dismay as huge chunk of Greenland's ice cap breaks offAn enormous chunk of Greenland's ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.The glacier section has an area of 110km sq. It came off of in the fjord.......
Naomi Watts and director Phillip Noyce to film Limelight thriller "Lakewood" [EXCLUSIVE]Naomi Watts and director Phillip Noyce are joining forces for the thriller "Lakewood," set to begin filming Sept. 16 in Ontario under strict COVID-19 protocols. The film, written by Chris Sparling ("Buried," "Greenland") and produced by Boies/Schiller's Zack Schiller and David Boies, Limelight's Dyl....
Ice sheet melt on track with 'worst-case climate scenario'A recent report confirms that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, whose mass-loss rates have been rapidly increasing, are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case sea-level rise scenarios.....
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Viruses on glaciers highlight evolutionary mechanism to overcome host defensesScientists studying life on the surface of glaciers in the Arctic and Alps challenge assumptions on virus evolution. Their study shows that, contrary to expectations, the viruses on glaciers in the Alps, Greenland and Spitsbergen are remarkably stable in the environment.....
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Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenarioIce sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenarios.....
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Small quake clusters can't hide from AIA deep learning algorithm analyzes data from a deadly landslide in Greenland to show how it may someday predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.....
Greenland ice sheet shows losses in 2019The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record loss of mass in 2019. This was the finding of a team of international researchers after evaluating data from satellite observations and modelling data.....
Scientists on Arctic mission make unplanned detour to poleBERLIN (AP) — A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour because of lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.
Expedition leader Markus Rex said Wednesday the RV Polarstern was able ....
New research reveals effect of global warming on Greenland ice meltNew analysis of almost 30 years' worth of scientific data on the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet predicts global sea level rise of at least 10 centimeters by the end of the 21st Century if global warming trends continue.....
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Study shows Greenland's ice sheets will continue to shrink even if global warming stopsResearchers from Ohio State University have concluded a new study that shows that glaciers on Greenland have shrunk so much that even if global warming stopped today, the sheet would continue to shrink. The study results show that the glaciers have passed a tipping point where snowfall replenishing ....
Greenland's ice sheet has melted to point of no returnGreenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, and efforts to slow global warming will not stop it from disintegrating. That's according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University.....
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no returnNearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.....
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Why Trump can't let Greenland goLast year, President Trump reportedly floated the idea of buying Greenland from Denmark, even after he was told it was not for sale. This summer on a trip to Denmark, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was asked again about the President's interest in buying Greenland -- and Pompeo did not shut it down.....
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Gerard Butler Kisses Girlfriend Morgan Brown Through His Mask!Gerard Butler shares a kiss with his longtime girlfriend Morgan Brown while leaving a smoothie bar on Monday afternoon (August 3) in Venice Beach, Calif. The 50-year-old Greenland actor wore a face mask while Morgan had hers off for the moment. The couple then rode their bikes away from the bar. PHO....
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Latva's Riga Festival to Host Industry Platform Magnetic SeriesThe Riga International Film Festival in Latvia is set to host Magnetic Series, a Nordic industry platform dedicated to drama series and streamers for the Nordic region, Russia, Germany and Greenland. Magnetic Series, which will be running Oct 16 only, will have a hybrid format allowing Baltic and No....
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Gerard Butler Chats With Girlfriend Morgan Brown After Picking Up Food To GoGerard Butler re-positions his face mask while on a food run in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon (July 29). The 50-year-old Angel Has Fallen and Greenland actor and girlfriend Morgan Brown were seen chatting on the curb after picking up some food to go from One Gun Ranch. Just the day before, Gera....
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Purchase of Greenland not a topic with Pompeo: Danish FMDanish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Wednesday that the U.S. desire to buy Greenland was not on the table during his meeting with the visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.....
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Mike Pompeo Tried To Shake Hands With World Leaders At Denmark Meetings, But They Turned Him DownMike Pompeo landed in Denmark for international meetings about a planned gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, but didn’t get the warm greeting he was seeking.
As The Week reported, the U.S. Secretary of State is opposed to the pipeline but tried to strike a diplomatic tone and extended his ....
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wouldn't rule out the US trying to buy GreenlandUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn't explicitly deny that the United States would be interested in possibly buying Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
In an interview with DR1 journalist Johannes Langkilde, Pompeo said "we're trying to get prosperity and ....
Baleen whales have changed their distribution in the Western North AtlanticResearchers using passive acoustic recordings of whale calls to track their movements have found that four of the six baleen whale species found in the western North Atlantic Ocean -- humpback, sei, fin and blue whales -- have changed their distribution patterns in the past decade. The recordings we....
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This map shows the most commonly spoken language in every US state, excluding English and SpanishBusiness Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from IPUMS
July 14 marks Bastille Day, the French holiday that celebrates the start of the French Revolution after the fortress-prison Bastille was overtaken and dismantled.
In the US, French is most commonly spoken in six states and DC, excluding English ....
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The Paris-sized impact crater hiding in GreenlandAn international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ice sheet — is one of the 25 largest impact craters on ....
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There's pink snow in the Alps that looks stunning, but it's a very bad signPink snow is appearing in the Italian Alps, offering clues as to mankind's impacts on the planet's climate.
The snow changes color due to algae blooms which absorb even more heat and then melt more snow.
It's a slippery slope, and mankind's gradual warming of the planet may already be tr....
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Pink ice in Italy's Alps sparks algae probeAn aerial picture taken on July 4, 2020 above the Presena glacier near Pellizzano, shows pink colored snow, supposedly due to the presence of colonies of algae of the species Ancylonela nordenskioeldii from Greenland.....
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Why Earth has a stubborn spot that's coolingEarth is relentlessly heating. So it's strange that there's a persistent "cold blob" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The cold blob (aka "warming hole") is like a glaring pimple, easily apparent on recent NASA surface temperature maps. As a whole, the ocean's surface has warmed by nearly 2 degr....
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Morena Baccarin Remembers The First Time She Met Future Husband Ben McKenzieMorena Baccarin didn't meet Ben McKenzie on the set of Gotham, but actually on the set of The O.C. The 41-year-old actress, who is promoting her new film with Gerard Butler, Greenland, is opening up about her love story with Ben. Apparently sparks didn't fly the first time they met: "I joke with Ben....
