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Greenland's Big Problem Is a Little One
Greenland's Melting IceUNEPSmall glaciers, not large ones, account for melting island Though its cause may still be contentious for some (ahem, Sarah Palin), it is undeniable that Greenland is...
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Army Corps of Engineers Now Required to Consider Climate Change in All Future...
Flood PlansHere's to keeping above waterArmy Corps of EngineersWorst-case planning never hurt anybody, and certainly not federal water projects that cost millions of dollars and could be easily undone...
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Antarctic Collision Snaps Rhode-Island-Sized Iceberg Off Glacier
Icebergs of The Mertz Ice Tongue The former piece of the glacier is on the left, with the striking iceberg that snapped it off on the right. Neal Young, © Commonwealth of Australia, via The Australia...
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Aspiring Peruvian Geoengineer Begins Project to Whitewash Andes Peaks, Hoping...
In an effort to restore Andean glaciers to their former color, a Peruvian inventor is breaking out the paint at 15,000 feet.Eduardo Gold -- who is not a scientist -- is working with a small crew of...
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Russians Will Be First To Explore Untouched Antarctic Lake Vostok, In Hunt...
Lake Vostok, Antarctica The area around Lake Vostok is circled in red.NASAThe lake has been isolated and buried for 14 million years An oxygen-rich lake, unreachable for the past 14 million years and...
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Rogue 'Steppenwolf Planets' That Have Escaped From Their Suns Could Harbor...
Gliese 581Artist's rendering of the star Gliese 581, with exoplanet Gliese 581c (neighbor to newly discovered Gliese 581g) in the foreground.ESOIf you don't need to be in a solar system to have liquid...
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Mongolia Will Build Enormous Block of Ice to Beat Summer Heat
NaledA sheet of naled ice in Mongolia. That black dot is a person.NswansonGeoengineering, steppe-style This month, Mongolia will launch a project creating a huge manmade ice block to combat the...
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New Climate Change Culprit: Chilean Man Stealing Glaciers to Put In Cocktails
Perito Moreno GlacierThis Patagonian glacier has not been harvested for bar use yet.Martin St-AmantPolice in Capitán Prat Province, Chile, have stopped a refrigerated truck carrying nearly 6 tons of...
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Scientists Find Clearest Evidence Yet Of Monumental Polar Ice Melt
Calved IcebergAn iceberg in or just outside the Ilulissat fjord that likely calved from Jakobshavn Isbrae, the fastest glacier in west Greenland. It is rumored that it was an iceberg from this glacier...
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What Climate Change Sounds Like
Melting IceDon't call me an ice cube.christine zeninoA musicologist and a climatologist create a soundtrack for glacier melt. A climatologist has teamed up with a musicologist to translate data from...
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400-Year-Old Mosses Revived In Lab
Eastern edge of Teardrop Glacier on Ellesmere IslandImage courtesy of Catherine La FargeThe amazing reviving Little Ice Age bryophyte This has been in the freezer for a long time. You think it's still...
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Thousands Of Species Found In Lake Vostok Ice
Surface of Lake VostokM. Studinger, LDEO via NASAIn one of the most isolated places on Earth, sealed off for 15 million years, life teems. Some of it may be animal life. A new study of Antarctica's...
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Greenland's Big Problem Is a Little One
Greenland's Melting Ice UNEP Though its cause may still be contentious for some (ahem, Sarah Palin), it is undeniable that Greenland is disappearing at a startling rate as large chunks of ice break...
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Army Corps of Engineers Now Required to Consider Climate Change in All Future...
Flood Plans Here's to keeping above water Army Corps of Engineers Worst-case planning never hurt anybody, and certainly not federal water projects that cost millions of dollars and could be easily...
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Antarctic Collision Snaps Rhode-Island-Sized Iceberg Off Glacier
Icebergs of The Mertz Ice Tongue The former piece of the glacier is on the left, with the striking iceberg that snapped it off on the right. Neal Young, © Commonwealth of Australia, via The Australia...
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Aspiring Peruvian Geoengineer Begins Project to Whitewash Andes Peaks, Hoping...
Whitewashing Formerly Snowcapped Peaks A team led by Peruvian inventor Eduardo Gold is painting Andean mountaintops to increase albedo, in an effort to slow glacier melt. BBC In an effort to restore...
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Russians Will Be First To Explore Untouched Antarctic Lake Vostok, In Hunt...
Lake Vostok, Antarctica The area around Lake Vostok is circled in red. NASA An oxygen-rich lake, unreachable for the past 14 million years and buried beneath a thick sheet of ice, is about to be...
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Rogue 'Steppenwolf Planets' That Have Escaped From Their Suns Could Harbor...
Gliese 581 Artist's rendering of the star Gliese 581, with exoplanet Gliese 581c (neighbor to newly discovered Gliese 581g) in the foreground. ESO Lonely Earth-like planets with tumultuous cores could...
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Mongolia Will Build Enormous Block of Ice to Beat Summer Heat
Naled A sheet of naled ice in Mongolia. That black dot is a person. NswansonThis month, Mongolia will launch a project creating a huge manmade ice block to combat the sweltering summer in the capital...
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New Climate Change Culprit: Chilean Man Stealing Glaciers to Put In Cocktails
Perito Moreno Glacier This Patagonian glacier has not been harvested for bar use yet. Martin St-AmantPolice in Capitán Prat Province, Chile, have stopped a refrigerated truck carrying nearly 6 tons of...
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