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These hot vacation spots will take you off the beaten track of the same old places. Best of all, these destinations will surprise and take you on an adventure of a lifetime.These hot vacation spots will take you off the beaten track of the same old places.... more
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Police in Iceland have shot a second polar bear that apparently travelled hundreds of kilometres across the sea to the island nation.
The animal was spotted by a 12-year-old girl on a farm, who raised the alarm - causing a crowd of media and onlookers to gather.
But the bear was gunned down after it charged the journalists.
It is believed the bear travelled several hundred kilometres from Greenland atop an ice floe, probably landing near the town of Saudarkrokur, on the Skaga fjord, where it was seen and killed.
The bear was the second known to have made the trip across the north Atlantic in just two weeks.
They were the first such incidents in 20 years in Iceland, which lies just below the Arctic Circle and where polar bears are not native.
In the earlier case, authorities permitted police marksmen to kill the polar bear, sparking protests from environmentalists and animal rights' groups.
After the protests, authorities had vowed to capture the second bear and have it shipped in a cage back to Greenland or give it to a zoo.
But after the bear charged a group of reporters "in a panic", a police spokesman said they had "no other choice" but to kill it.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a scientific paper by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Sebastian H. Mernild published recently in the journal "Hydrological Processes."
The study is based on the results of state-of-the-art modeling using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as satellite images and observations from on the ground in Greenland.
Mernild and his team found that the total amount of Greenland Ice Sheet freshwater input into the North Atlantic Ocean expected from 2071 to 2100 will be more than double what is currently observed.
The current East Greenland Ice Sheet freshwater flux is 257 km3 per year from both runoff and iceberg calving. This freshwater flux is estimated to reach 456 km3 by 2100.
Mernild's results further show a change in total East Greenland freshwater flux from today's values of 438 km3 per year to 650 km3 per year by 2100. This indicates an increase in global sea level rise estimates from 1.1 millimeters per year to 1.6 millimeters per year.
"The Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance is changing as a response to the altered climatic state," said Mernild.
"This is faster than expected. This affects freshwater runoff input to the North Atlantic Ocean, and plays an important role in determining the global sea level rise and global ocean thermohaline circulation."
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Scientists have discovered massive, slow-motion "ice quakes" trembling twice a day through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, an Alaska-sized swath of Antarctica. Detective work has traced the source of the shaking to the Whillans Ice Stream, a glacier 100 kilometers across and 1 kilometer thick, which flows from the ice sheet's interior.
"Finding the causes of ice quakes--which also occur in Greenland--could lead to better understanding glacial movement and improved models of how glaciers will respond to climate change, says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who first reported the twice-daily surges of the Whillans Ice Stream in 2003. "What has come from these discoveries is a realization that glaciers have other modes of behavior than we have thought of previously," says Göran Ekström, a seismologist with Columbia University."Scientists have discovered massive, slow-motion "ice quakes" trembling twice... more
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ILULISSAT, Greenland (Reuters) - Five Arctic coastal nations agreed on Wednesday to let the U.N. rule on conflicting territorial claims on the region's seabed, which may hold up to one fourth of the world's undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves.
"We affirmed our commitment to the orderly settlement of any possible overlapping claims," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte told a news conference.
Ministers from Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States met in Greenland for a two-day summit to discuss sovereignty over the Arctic Ocean seabed.
Environmental groups were not invited and have criticized the scramble for the Arctic, saying it will damage unique animal habitats. They call for a treaty similar to the treaty regulating the Antarctic, which bans military activity and mineral mining.ILULISSAT, Greenland (Reuters) - Five Arctic coastal nations agreed on Wednesday to... more
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"We can firmly say that today's concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are 28 and 124 percent higher respectively than at any time during the last 800,000 years," said Thomas Stocker, an author of the report at the University of Berne."We can firmly say that today's concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane... more
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In the past few years, a rhetorical firestorm has engulfed the debate about global warming, pitting science against spin, with inflammatory words on both sides. That debate only intensifed recently when former Vice-President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his populist environmental campaign.
Last season, the fifth estate's Bob McKeown investigated the roots of another kind of campaign--one to negate the science and the threat of global warming. You can watch The Denial Machine again, more timely than ever, with new, updated information.
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http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video_player.html?denialIn the past few years, a rhetorical firestorm has engulfed the debate about global... more
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Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science.Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there... more
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My site is collection of news articles, videos and documentaries from across the net. I have made it easy by putting the info at your finger tips. I cover Global warming , climate change , abrupt climate change, state of the planet -oceans, Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic, Forest, Biofuels, Peak oil and moreMy site is collection of news articles, videos and documentaries from across the net.... more
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Extreme Ice Survey is an ambitious project to capture global warming-induced glacial retreat in the act. Beginning in December 2006, photographer James Balog and his colleagues set up 26 solar-powered cameras at glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, the Alps, and the Rocky Mountains. Each unit will take a photograph every daylight hour until fall 2009. In 2008, Balog's team began to return to each of the camera sites to collect images. In the end, they will have more than 300,000 images to analyze and stitch together to produce more dramatic videos like this one. This kind of multiyear effort, says Balog, is necessary to 'radically alter public perception of the global warming issue.'"Extreme Ice Survey is an ambitious project to capture global warming-induced glacial... more
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As the Inuits, our first real climate refugees try to cope with the drastic and dangerous changes our behavior has caused. We truly are on thin ice.As the Inuits, our first real climate refugees try to cope with the drastic and... more
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world's most vulnerable ice sheets, in Greenland and West Antarctica, can continue to accelerate. The effort involves field and satellite analyses and sifting for clues from past warm periods, including the last warm span between ice ages, which peaked about 125,000 years ago and had sea levels 12 to 16 feet higher than today's.A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world's... more
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Robert Corell was the lead scientist of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Report regarding climate change in the Arctic. I recommend reading this interview with him as he basically corroborates what Al Gore has also been stating, and explains why sea level rise may well be greater than reported by the IPCC, as they only considered water expansion from warming oceans not including addiitonal melt water from glaciers that would be added to it. With Greenland melting at such a rapid pace that must be considered. As he stated, we must now build a "climate cathedral."Robert Corell was the lead scientist of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Report... more
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I just don't get this. This is a LOUD alarm bell for the planet and yet it doesn't seem like there is the urgency about it that there should be. It's as if we are detached from it watching it go down while we continue to be more concerned about other things less important. It's all very surreal to me. I just don't get this. This is a LOUD alarm bell for the planet and yet it... more
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Greenland's ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate, in an effort to live up to its nameGreenland's ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate, in an effort to live up to... more
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This is a stunning photoset of Arctic landscapes and communities from around the globe. Some of these images look like they came from another planet. Others are simply from another world. This is a stunning photoset of Arctic landscapes and communities from around the... more
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Apparently, Greenland was not only green at some point...but according to this artist's rendering it was also the set of the popular Teletubbies cartoon.Apparently, Greenland was not only green at some point...but according to this... more
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