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Yesterday | RealClimate

What links the retreat of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Wilkins Ice Shelf and the Petermann Glacier?

Changes occurring in marine terminating outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ice shelves fringing the Antarctic Peninsula have altered our sense of the possible rate of response of large ice sheet-ice ...

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Tue Oct 07, 2008

IcHounslow

Artic trip for Chiswick couple

A Chiswick couple have finished an epic journey to the arctic with a boat full of celebs.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Sat Oct 04, 2008

NorCalBlogs

Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses

Above image is not part of original papers, but included to demonstrate the issue.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Fri Oct 03, 2008

Ars Technica

Following a glacial retreat to its cause

The Greenland ice cap contains a staggering amount of water, which means that scientists have started keeping a nervous eye on it as conditions in the Arctic warm rapidly.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk

Review: Dancing on Ice by Jeremy Scott

Sara Wheeler thrills to a story of daring in the Arctic and decline back in Britain The story of Gino Watkins is one of the most gripping to emerge from the polar regions.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Deutsche Welle

An iceberg floats in the bay in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle

Europe's environmental outlook for the next century darkened Monday with the release of a climate change study projecting the continent would suffer more from global warming than other parts of the world.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Weather

EurekAlert!

Researchers attribute thinning of Greenland glacier to ocean warming preceded by atmospheric changes

The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Related Topix: New York University, World News, Arctic Region

The Sunday Mail

Scots singer set to expose cost of global warming

SINGER KT Tunstall has set sail in the Arctic Circle on a starstudded mission to expose global warming.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Pulp, KT Tunstall, World News, Arctic Region

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Accuweather.com

Rubber Ducks being used by NASA to help Track Glaciers

September 23, 2008 Rubber Ducks being used by NASA to help Track Glaciers The retreat of the Jakobshavn Glacier.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Thu Sep 25, 2008

CNN

Rubber ducks aid climate research

As an organization they're used to investing billions of dollars in scientific experiments that further our knowledge of earth and space.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, NASA, World News, Arctic Region

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Nunatsiaq News

Around the Arctic

More than 300 social scientists, government officials and observers from 33 countries gathered in Nuuk, Greenland Aug.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Sun Sep 21, 2008

Scientific American

Can rubber ducks help track a melting glacier?

To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Fri Sep 19, 2008

World News from Times Online

Greenland: land of ice goes green as warming turns the cabbages into kings

Climate change has brought new opportunities to Greenland that could secure its independence from Denmark Martin Fletcher Lasse Bjerge lives in a remote, sub-Arctic valley that is flanked by barren mountains, ...

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Boat Disaster, Life, Food, Vegetables, Agriculture, Science, World News, Arctic Region

CBC News

Feist, Martha Wainwright among artists on climate change expedition to Greenland

Canadian musicians Feist and Martha Wainwright will be among artists and scientists on board a ship headed to Greenland this month in an expedition that will study the effects of climate change.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region, Science, Oceanography, Entertainment

Thu Sep 18, 2008

LiveScience

Biggest Melt Comes From Smallest Glaciers

The graph above shows daily sea ice extent.The solid light blue line indicates 2008; the dashed green line shows 2007; the dotted line shows 2005; the solid gray line indicates average extent from 1979 to 2000.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Tue Sep 16, 2008

Scientific Blogging

Small Glaciers Are Important Too - 75 Percent Of Greenland Loss Ignored In Studies

Submitted by News Staff on 15 September 2008 - 12:05am. Geology The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but ...

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Related Topix: Geology, Science, World News, Arctic Region

Mon Sep 15, 2008

Travel Trade

Deilmann's Deutschland to Sail Iceland, Greenland

Peter Deilmann's ocean-going vessel MS Deutschland will venture into the waters of the world's northern reaches on a 23-night exploration voyage to Greenland, Iceland and Norway in 2009.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Travel, Greenland Travel, Arctic Region, Iceland, Iceland Travel, Faroe Islands Travel

EurekAlert!

Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows

The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Sun Sep 14, 2008

The West Australian

Arctic adventure on offer

Sail into a pristine frozen environment, paddle in the ice-studded waters of a fjord and watch fin whales feeding during Flight Centre's yachting adventure.

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Related Topix: World News, Arctic Region

Fri Sep 12, 2008

BBC

Greenland seeks whaling breakaway

Greenland is attempting to remove its whale hunt from the jurisdiction of the International Whaling Commission , BBC News has learned.

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Related Topix: Europe, Denmark, Arctic Region

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