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NASA supercomputers reveal disturbing possibility tied to Greenland's most active glacier: 'Our approach is applicable to any region'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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August 20, 2025
With the help of NASA's advanced supercomputers, a team of researchers took a closer look at the relationship between Greenland's rapid glacier melt and carbon cycling in nearby coastal waters. What's happening? In a recent study, published in the...
Texas Roadside Giant, Buc-ees Takes Aim at one of Colorado’s Iconic “Wide Open Spaces”
Ark Valley Voice - Colorado
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August 27, 2025
Greenland Ranch. Photo by John Fielder Historic Greenland Ranch Land Target of Buc-ee’s Development Proposal The I-25 corridor traverses an area known as Greenland between Castle Rock and Larkspur south to Colorado Springs. A new development...
Scientists Believe Greenland May Be Hiding A Secret Lake Under The Ice
BGR - New York
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August 19, 2025
An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet covers a number of subglacial lakes. One of those...
Science BGR Scientists Believe Greenland May Be Hiding A Secret Lake Under The Ice
Yahoo News
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An article published in Nature Geoscience on July 30th, 2025 explores an event that happened in 2014 but was only recently discovered thanks to archives of satellite images. The Greenland Ice Sheet covers a number of subglacial lakes. One of those...
Greenland’s Short Summer Sledding Season Begins
Explorersweb
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August 15, 2025
It’s never entirely summer in Greenland, at least not by southern standards, and several ski expeditions are heading onto the Ice Sheet with their sleds. Summer and early fall combine challenging meltwater, fractured terrain, shifting winds, and...
Southern California's Wildlife Crossing Prepares for its Debut
Engineering News Record
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August 19, 2025
The world’s largest wildlife crossing is taking shape over the busy Highway 101 in Agoura Hills, about 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Phase 1 of the The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is just about complete, and Phase 2 began this summer....
The Nonsense Narrative Of Climate Change As An Existential Crisis
Forbes
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The issue of climate narratives is something very much on my mind these days. Two years ago I wrote about five climate change narratives (Scientific, Skeptical, Doomsday, Opportunistic, and Moral) and three months ago I wrote that we need a new...
Greenland’s Melting Ice Is Supercharging Life in the Sea
SciTechDaily
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August 15, 2025
Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA’s ECCO model. Advanced computing is helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth. Credit: NASA’s...
The Farther East One Goes in Europe, the More ‘West’ One Winds Up
New Lines Magazine
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August 28, 2025
Popular Swedish spy thrillers written in the last 20 years have offered variations on the same curtain-raiser for World War III. In the dead of sunless winter, usually around Christmas, the Russians mount a stealth invasion of the island of...
New fat-loving PFAS found in killer whale blubber raise fresh concerns about ocean pollution
Environmental Health News
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August 18, 2025
Scientists have discovered a previously unreported class of PFAS chemicals that accumulate in killer whale blubber, challenging long-held assumptions about how these toxic compounds behave in marine life. Rob Hutchins reports for Oceanographic...
As Greenland Melts, Sea Life Blooms
Yale E360
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August 19, 2025
Meltwater flowing from the Greenland ice sheet is stirring up nutrients from the ocean depths, fueling algal blooms. A new study reveals the extent to which melting is driving the growth of algae. As Greenland melts, water is trickling down...
German Navy ship calls in Greenland for the first time
Naval news
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August 19, 2025
After exercising with SNMG1 ships, German Navy’s replenishment tanker ‘Berlin’ has called in Nuuk, Greenland for the first time participating in securing maritime lanes between Greenland and Northern Europe, also known as the GIUK area. German...
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...
Explained: Who are Kairat, the Champions League team who play closer to Tokyo than Paris?
The New York Times
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August 28, 2025
Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Kairat — sorry, who? Yes, Kairat — a club from Almaty, Kazakhstan, who are playing in the Champions League for the first time and have qualified for the league phase after beating Celtic in the...
We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?
Space.com
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August 18, 2025
In June, more than 60 climate scientists warned that the remaining "carbon budget" to stay below a dire warming threshold will be exhausted in as little as three years at the current rate of emissions. But if we pass that critical...
‘Window to avoid worst climate scenarios is rapidly shutting’
Down to Earth
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Warming has been largely linear so far. The rise in temperature is already translating to more frequent and intense droughts, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, disease patterns and stronger, human-reinforced storms. This forms the basis for declaring...
State of the Climate 2024: Record heat and rising seas
Earth.com
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In 2024, the world’s climate continued to break records, with greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures reaching unprecedented highs. The oceans absorbed more heat than ever before. Sea levels climbed to their highest point on record,...
Falling ice accelerates glacier retreat in Greenland
TerraDaily
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Falling ice accelerates glacier retreat in Greenland by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Iceberg calving, where massive ice blocks detach from glacier fronts and plunge into the ocean, is a major factor in Greenland's rapid ice...
Aurora Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer Ship Review
NOMADasaurus
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August 28, 2025
The Greg Mortimer holds a special place in the world of expedition cruising. When it launched in 2019 it wasn’t just another polar ship — it was the first passenger vessel built with the groundbreaking Ulstein X-BOW®. That single innovation...
Letters to the Editor: We have the competence to resolve housing and environmental issues
Irish Examiner
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August 18, 2025
Living in a post-truth world divided by ever more toxic social media and politics is, we are assured, the challenge of our age.Really? Surely the sense of powerlessness — a reality rather than a sense — is the greater drain on humanity’s more...