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For years scientists have been trying to find explanations for some of the world’s most mysterious extinction events. Since life began on Earth some 3.5 billion years ago, there have been as many as 23 mass extinction events.
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Only changes in carbon dioxide levels are able to explain the transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered Greenland of...
made popular Aug 28 2008
Fragile ecosystems like the Antarctic and Greenland are highly sensitive to climate change and respond most dramatically to it. Fresh evidence suggests what we were...
made popular Jun 13 2008
Will the Arctic be a 21st Century Sarajevo, triggering a major war over energy resources? Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are at odds over 1.2...
made popular May 29 2008
Denmark has invited high-ranking officials from Norway, Russia, the United States and Canada to meet in Greenland next month to discuss competing claims to the Arctic,...
made popular Apr 24 2008
Fears that the rapid draining of water from the top of Greenland’s ice sheet may be contributing to the rise of global sea levels have been allayed by new...
made popular Apr 19 2008
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For an hour or so Greenland had it’s own mighty waterfall, flowing secretly at three times the volume of Niagara.A meltwater lake on the surface of a glacier...
made popular Apr 17 2008
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Arctic sea ice next summer may shrink below the record low last year, according to a University of Washington climatologist. Ignatius Rigor spoke Monday at the Alaska...
made popular Feb 12 2008
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Greenland will hold a referendum in November on greater autonomy from Denmark in what many residents hope could become a step toward full independence, the Arctic...
made popular Jan 10 2008
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted “hero” awards to scientists backing Russia’s claim to a mountain range under the Arctic Ocean that is...
made popular Jan 10 2008
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The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the “frightening” possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets...
made popular Jan 8 2008
The once towering ice sheets of Greenland are fast eroding, ringing the danger bells all around. The fear of a tragic sea-level rise is also round the corner. Is it the...
made popular Jan 8 2008
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There’s more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is...
made popular Jan 2 2008
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When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide _ 1.53 degrees above...
made popular Dec 29 2007
If you are wondering the ecstatic ice sheets of natural wilderness to be a part of your life, you are getting wrong here. The naturally formed ice sheets of Arctic and...
made popular Dec 12 2007
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An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous...
made popular Dec 11 2007
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Republican Rudy Giuliani is trying to make up for lost time in New Hampshire by cutting to the chase with low-tax talk likely to resonate in a state whose lack of...
made popular Dec 2 2007
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Milo Radulovich, the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the anti-communist crackdown of...
made popular Nov 20 2007
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Japan’s whaling fleet was set to leave port Sunday for its biggest-ever scientific whale hunt in the South Pacific, the government fisheries agency said.The...
made popular Nov 16 2007
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Sahara the Arctic seal keeps turning up in warmer waters. The young seal was rescued off the coast of North Africa last year, far from his native habitat in the Arctic....
made popular Nov 15 2007
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Facts and figures on Denmark’s parliamentary elections held Tuesday.___Voters:Of Denmark’s 5.4 million people, just over 4 million are eligible to vote,...
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Fears that the rapid draining of water from the top of Greenland’s ice sheet may be contributing to the rise of global sea levels have been allayed by new...
made popular Apr 19 2008
Sea levels could rise by up to one-and-a-half metres by the end of this century, according to a new scientific analysis.
made popular Apr 17 2008
Almost all of us witnessed the raw power of seas during Tsunami. That sort of gave us a rough idea of how high the seas might rise. Experts predict that the seas could...
made popular Dec 17 2007
If the recent flooding around the globe has made you doubt the validity of the charges against the BMC scapegoat, then you’re not alone.
Ed Mazria, founder of...
made popular Sep 20 2007
Scientists have been warning these days that global warming due to pollutants may lead to the rise in sea level and other environmental disasters. But, a new finding...
made popular Dec 22 2005
Though you can blame nature straight away to an extent for the dramatic increase in the earth’s temperature, we can’t deny that man has contributed to this...
made popular Nov 25 2005
Glaciologists at the Royal Society in London, this week have busted the four-year-old claim that Antarctica would not contribute significantly to sea level rise in the...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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