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Antarctica was once warm
In the warm period 52 million years ago, tropical plants were like palm trees, each covering the Antarctic coast. The sediment on the continental shelf near Antarctica h…
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The iceberg was torn from Greenland
A glacier twice the size of Manhattan (USA) was torn off one of Greenland's largest glaciers, the latest sign of a dramatic change in this warming polar island.
Environment
The Arctic was warm
Martin Melles, a scientist at the University of Cologne in Germany, and colleagues from Russia and the United States drilled deep beneath the El 'gygytgyn glacier at Rus…
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Rising sea level threatens the US coast
According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the US Atlantic coastline, which includes cities like New York and Boston, has risen four times fast…
Environment
Detects shock under the Arctic ice shelf
This finding was compared to NASA's finding the Amazon rainforest in the heart of the Mojave desert. DailyMail page reported, scientists have found an extremely interest…
Environment
6 most obvious consequences of climate change
Climate change sea makes flowers bloom earlier, the breeding season of animals changes and military activities increase sharply in the Arctic. The global average tempera…
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The Earth is going to return to an ice age?
Scientists at the GFZ Geological Sciences Research Center analyzed the sediment layer at the bottom of the Meerfelder Maar lake in Eifel (Germany) and found direct evide…
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The Arctic Ocean emits greenhouse gases
Research by world scientists published April 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience warns that the Arctic Ocean could be a huge source of methane, a source of greenhouse ga…
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Ocean warming since when?
New research shows that the world's oceans have started to heat up more than 100 years ago, twice the time previously known. The results of the study could help scientis…
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The earthquake in Indonesia is '2000 years with one'
The earthquake of magnitude 8.7 on April 11 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia is a once-in-a-thousand-year event, even though it caused little human damage, according…
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Climate change warms up the
The race to strengthen influence in the Arctic between some powers is becoming more and more intense in the context of the world still not having a common voice in the f…
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Sea level will rise by 20m if the Earth's ice melts
The sea level will rise by 10 to 20 meters when all the ice on the planet melts and the process is inevitable, even if people succeed in controlling the planet's tempera…
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USA: Anchorage city snowed 3.4m
On April 8, the US National Weather Center said snow storms over the weekend made Anchorage, Alaska, almost submerged in snow with 3.4m thick snow.
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Argentina witnessed the largest ice erosion ever seen
On the morning of March 4, the collapse of the ice dam on the Perit Moreno glacier in Argentina created a majestic scene never seen since July 2008.
Environment
Tourists 'threaten' Antarctica
Scientists are concerned that the Antarctic ice continent is suffering