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A Dusty Greenland Is Speeding Up Glacial Melt
Posted by ThinkProgress: None Given on June 10th, 2014
ThinkProgress: Greenland provides one of the best real-time visuals of climate change - cleaving glaciers the size of buildings cascading into the ocean as one long, slow river of ice returning to the sea. A new study shows that a layer of dust covering much of Greenland`s ice sheet could be speeding up this process.
A paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that dust particles embedded in Greenland`s massive ice sheet are gathering more heat than the otherwise white, reflective surface would...
Dust Particles Are Speeding Up the Melting of Greenland’s Ice Shelf
Posted by Softpedia: None Given on June 10th, 2014
Softpedia: In a paper recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers argue that, according to evidence at hand, Greenland's ice shelf has high chances to get a whole lot smaller way sooner than anyone would expect. Since the melting of this massive block of ice is expected to translate into a noteworthy increase in global sea levels, specialists warn that, the faster it melts, the sooner and the worse coastal communities could be affected by this phenomenon. What's interesting...
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Comments Off on Dust Particles Are Speeding Up the Melting of Greenland’s Ice ShelfNorthern California leaders ask for help in drought
Posted by Reuters: Sharon Bernstein on June 10th, 2014
Reuters: With California facing its worst drought in decades, farmers, environmentalists and government officials begged lawmakers Monday to invest in projects to shore up the state's water supply.
The demands from Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, The Nature Conservancy and Northern California water districts are an effort to help break a deadlock in the state legislature over how to prevent future water shortages.
The demands range from environmental restoration work for rivers and wetlands to building...