BERLIN (AP) – A German icebreaker accompanying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. Expedition leader Markus Rex said on Wednesday that the RV Polarstern could reach the geographic North Pole …
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(News) – He was a renowned climate scientist who studied his life melting ice in the Arctic and warned the world about the consequences. And it was such great dangers that claimed the life of Konrad Steffen, reports USA Today. The 68-year-old fell through ice at his Swiss camp in …
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(Reuters) – Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with ice likely to melt, no matter how fast global warming emits from global warming, new research suggests. A fishing vessel will be in the ice fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland 12 September 2017. Photo taken 12 September …
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The Arctic’s fast-melting ice is even more than our strongest predictions for the future, and that is not in line with the past. A new and improved model, based on the last warm period in the history of the Earth, now suggests shallow pools of rain and melt water could …
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Canada’s last intact ice sheet has broken, with a massive section larger than the island of Manhattan collapsing into the ocean, the Canadian Ice Service announced this. More than 40 percent of the Milne Ice Shelf, on the edge of Ellesmere Island, has now fallen victim to Arctic waters that …
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