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Global warming has terrible consequences
Global warming can wipe out ¾ of the ice sheets in the highlands of Europe by 2100 and raise the sea level by 4m by 3000.
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Glaciers 'cry'
The Arctic sea ice has been significantly thinner in recent decades, the permafrost is gradually being replaced by seasonal ice changes.
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Huge ice breaking in the North Pole
US scientists say an ice sheet of four times the size of Manhattan Island (260 km2) and a height of about 180m have been separated from the Petermann glacier in northern…
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The world's largest ice island wanders over the ocean
After separating from Greenland, huge ice blocks drifted over the Arctic Ocean, threatening the safety of ships and oil rigs.
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Melting glaciers make the food crisis
The melting of glaciers around the world will give rise to new food crises.
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Adding a volcano in Iceland can erupt
The economic and health damage caused by Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland may be just the first sign of a worse event.
Environment
Broken ice caused 'tsunami' in Peru
The waves as high as 23 m attacked a city in Peru after a giant block of ice fell into the lake.
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Volcanoes erupted again on the glacier
About 700 people in Iceland left their homes after smoke and dust rose from a volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier.
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Equatorial Earth has been covered by glaciers
A recent study found that the Earth equator with wet characteristics was covered by an ice layer about 700 million years ago.
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Add a giant iceberg from Antarctica
A giant iceberg about the size of Luxembourg (Western Europe) that broke off from the eastern South Pole earlier this week may threaten marine life, scientists warn the…
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Ice melted faster than expected throughout the Earth
On December 23, scientists around the world warned that ice is melting faster than expected throughout the Earth.
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Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctic islands
Recently, space satellites have provided scientists with the most comprehensive picture of rapidly moving glaciers along the Antarctic and Greenland coasts.
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Antarctic glacier is thinning with alarming speed
Scientists say the huge glacier in Antarctica is getting thinner and thinner. Glaciers around Pine Island in the West Antarctica are twice the size of Scotland, which is…
Environment
Detecting Cupid's lake
The Arctic, an unimaginable place for romance, but Earth chose this place to save the mark of the god of love.
Environment
Abnormal melting ice alarm in the Arctic
Rapid warming in the Arctic region and a large number of glaciers are fading as a phenomenon