Greenland
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Greenland glaciers show record losses
AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota Greenland’s glaciers keep shrinking as higher surface temperatures have created record mass losses in 2010 and 2011, researchers announced this week. Third-party effort aims to transform 2012 race Next up for reeling Netflix: Damage control Nice guys and gals still finish last at the office [...]
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Vast ice island set to break off Greenland glacier
AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota New photographs taken of a vast glacier in northern Greenland have revealed the astonishing rate of its breakup, with one scientist saying he was rendered “speechless.” In August 2010, part of the Petermann Glacier about four times the size of Manhattan island broke off , [...]
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As Greenland ice thins, shoot the dogs, drill for oil
AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota Brennan Linsley / APInuit hunter Nukappi Brandt steers his small boat as he and his daughter Aaneeraq, 9, scan the water for seals, accompanied by his other daughter Luusi, 8, outside Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland, July 21. Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age [...]