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America takes advantage of Arctic ice to track submarines
The Arctic ice is melting at the greatest speed in history and this speed tends to increase. That situation can make military and commercial activities more frequent in…
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The Arctic ice will disappear in the next 10 years?
Dr. Seymour Laxon and his colleagues at the University of London's Polar Observatory and Model Center conducted a study on the melting speed of ice in the Arctic through…
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Greenland ice suddenly melted massively
Nearly all of Greenland's large glaciers, the largest ice island on the planet, suddenly melted in part in July and surprised scientists. Three NASA satellites discovere…
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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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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…
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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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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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At the end of the century, the sea will submerge 4 million Americans
According to two recent studies, scientists predict that about 4 million Americans, living on an area larger than the state of Maryland (about 32,000 square kilometers)…
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Can't conquer Everest due to ... out of snow?
Who ever conquered Everest 21 times, Asa Sherpa said he might not be able to climb the highest mountain in the world anymore.
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The risk of floods devastates the Danube basin countries
Margareta Wahlström Margareta Wahlström emphasized the devastating flooding caused by the rapid melting of ice on the Danube could increase human and property damage aft…
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Global sea level is increasing
This data was provided by a team of University of Colorado experts at Boulder (UCB) and a spacecraft of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA). Accordingly, the global sea level…
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Himalayan glaciers threaten millions of people
Millions of people threatened by fast-melting Himalayan glaciers are warnings by scientists at the UN Climate Change Conference that is taking place in Durban, South Afr…
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Mystery 'underworld' on the bottom of Antarctica
Scientists have just completed the most detailed map of the sunken part of the white continent, which is a map of the Antarctic bottom mountain range. This startling ima…
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The largest ice island emerged because of climate change
Tens of billions of tons of ice on Greenland melt annually due to rising global temperatures. That phenomenon caused the rock beneath the ice to rise continuously.