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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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Remote island caves reveal clues to climate
AppId is over the quota AppId is over the quota On the remote South Pacific island of Niue, a new kind of weather reporting is taking shape far below the clouds — clues found deep in caves on the island. Paul Aharon, a geologist at the University of Alabama, started coming to do fieldwork on [...]