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Oldest known docodontan fossil found in Greenland narrows the evolutionary gap
Nagaland Post
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August 9, 2025
In a recent study by Dr. Sofia Patrocínio and her colleagues, published in Papers in Palaeontology, a new specimen of Docodonta is described. This fossil represents the earliest occurrence of docodontans, and helps narrow the 40-million-year-old...
Scientists Warn “These Ice Quakes Could Shatter” After Detecting Mysterious Deep Tremors In Greenland’s Frozen Rivers
Sustainability Times
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August 7, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL ❄️ Researchers discovered ice quakes in Greenland using a fiber-optic cable in a deep borehole. 🌋 Volcanic particles from an ancient eruption block seismic waves, concealing ice quakes beneath the surface. 🌊 Ice streams, crucial for...
Massive comet trail may have transformed Earth's climate more than 12,000 years ago, tiny particles suggest
LiveScience
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August 8, 2025
Scientists have found new evidence that a massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago. Tiny particles detected in ocean sediment cores suggest that dust from a large, disintegrating comet entered...
'Hot Blob' Heading For New York Following Ancient Greenland Rift
ScienceAlert
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August 5, 2025
A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the result of a divorce between Greenland and Canada some 80 million years ago. A study by an international team of researchers...
'Living smarter' focus of upcoming Muskoka Summit on the Environment
Orillia News
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Muskoka Watershed Council hosting event Oct. 3 in Bracebridge NEWS RELEASE MUSKOKA WATERSHED COUNCIL ************************* What does a smarter, more sustainable future look like for Muskoka? This October, the Muskoka Summit on the Environment...
Hidden lake explodes under the Greenland ice sheet, creating a massive crater
Earth.com
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A hidden lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet at Harder Glacier suddenly burst from deep beneath the ice. The water exploded upwards, cracked the thick ice above, and shot out across the surface. In just ten days, the lake released 23.8 billion...
World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain wh...
Modern Ghana
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The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures. The map most commonly used is called...
NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier
NASA
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August 6, 2025
As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the...
Storm system drops more than 4 inches of rain on Northwest Arkansas; Springdale water main develops leak
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 28, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Northwest Arkansas residents awoke to thunder, lightning and flash flood alerts Thursday morning as a storm system moved through the area that dropped more than 4...
The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge
The Guardian
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August 5, 2025
Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of Mount Everest, and in the deepest depths of the western Pacific Ocean. Nature programmes...
Scientists discover concerning impact of underwater waves as tall as skyscrapers: 'Multiplier effect'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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August 28, 2025
A new study has revealed that the Greenland ice sheet is melting at an increasingly faster rate due to huge underwater waves that churn up warm seawater. What's happening? A GreenFjord project research team unveiled the findings via the latest...
23 Billion Gallons of Water Burst Through Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet
VICE
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August 4, 2025
A recently published study describes a 2014 event in which scientists observed something they had not even known was possible: a massive flood from a subglacial lake bursting through Greenland’s ice sheet. This icy geyser wasn’t supposed to exist....
The Satellite That Sees Earth Breathe: How NISAR Could Transform Sustainability From Space
Green Prophet
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August 3, 2025
This satellite watches the earth breathe Last week, the most advanced Earth-mapping satellite ever built left Earth to watch over it. The joint NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite launched from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre...
Danish Intelligence Service Tells Trump To Stop Oafish Espionage Maneuvers
Defector
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August 27, 2025
Early Wednesday morning, Danish public broadcaster DR broke the news that several associates of Donald Trump had been flagged by the Danish Police Intelligence Service for running a shoddy espionage campaign in Greenland to soften the ground ahead...
Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland's Ice Sheet
Futurism
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August 3, 2025
Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater burst through Greenland's ice sheet, spilling copious amounts of water across its surface. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature...
Russia conducts massive overnight strike on Kyiv
WNYC - New York
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August 28, 2025
Russia's massive attack on Ukraine’s capital kills at least 19 people and injures many dozens more. Ukrainians grapple with heading to shelters or riding out incoming attacks. Also, UN officials see no end in sight for conflict in both Gaza and...
What Would Happen If All the Ice on Earth Suddenly Melted?
Literary Hub
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August 28, 2025
Today CO2 sits at 421 parts per million (ppm), or 0.042 percent, far higher than it’s ever been in the history of Homo sapiens. In fact, it’s the highest it’s been since the Pliocene epoch over 3 million years ago, when evergreen forests stretched...
Africa: The cartographic and demographic
Shelburne Free Press
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August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025 · 0 Comments by GWYNNE DYER Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map,...
Dreaming of fall and winter destinations? Canadian travel experts share recommendations to suit your wish list
Toronto.com
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In Canada, this has been the summer of the patriotic staycation, with many opting to spend travel bucks within our own borders. But with the colder months fast approaching, you may now be plotting your winter escape, or eager to take advantage of...
Glaciers are shrinking, but stricter climate policies could save twice as much ice
ScienceNorway
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August 1, 2025
THIS CONTENT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY University of Oslo - read more "The choices we make today will resonate for centuries, determining how much of our glaciers can be preserved," says researcher. The status of the glaciers on the Norwegian...