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We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?
Space.com
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August 18, 2025
In June, more than 60 climate scientists warned that the remaining "carbon budget" to stay below a dire warming threshold will be exhausted in as little as three years at the current rate of emissions. But if we pass that critical...
Greenland’s Glacial Runoff Is Powering Explosions of Ocean Life
ScienceDaily
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As Greenland's ice retreats, it's fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that's been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland's ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the...
‘Window to avoid worst climate scenarios is rapidly shutting’
Down to Earth
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Warming has been largely linear so far. The rise in temperature is already translating to more frequent and intense droughts, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, disease patterns and stronger, human-reinforced storms. This forms the basis for declaring...
Falling ice accelerates glacier retreat in Greenland
TerraDaily
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Falling ice accelerates glacier retreat in Greenland by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Iceberg calving, where massive ice blocks detach from glacier fronts and plunge into the ocean, is a major factor in Greenland's rapid ice...
Letters to the Editor: We have the competence to resolve housing and environmental issues
Irish Examiner
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August 18, 2025
Living in a post-truth world divided by ever more toxic social media and politics is, we are assured, the challenge of our age.Really? Surely the sense of powerlessness — a reality rather than a sense — is the greater drain on humanity’s more...
State of the Climate 2024: Record heat and rising seas
Earth.com
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In 2024, the world’s climate continued to break records, with greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures reaching unprecedented highs. The oceans absorbed more heat than ever before. Sea levels climbed to their highest point on record,...
Science The Cool Down Scientists puzzled by new phenomenon witnessed on Greenland ice sheet: 'We haven't observed anything like this before'
Yahoo News
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Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Researchers were surprised and alarmed to learn of...
Atlantic circulation may become unstable after 6,500 steady years
Earth.com
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Over the last 12,000 years, the Atlantic’s great heat mover – the AMOC – stayed mostly on an even keel. Scientists now have a quantitative picture of that long stretch, and the story mixes calm background with a few sharp bends. The AMOC is the...
Greenland’s Short Summer Sledding Season Begins
Explorersweb
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August 15, 2025
It’s never entirely summer in Greenland, at least not by southern standards, and several ski expeditions are heading onto the Ice Sheet with their sleds. Summer and early fall combine challenging meltwater, fractured terrain, shifting winds, and...
Greenland’s Melting Ice Is Supercharging Life in the Sea
SciTechDaily
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August 15, 2025
Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA’s ECCO model. Advanced computing is helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth. Credit: NASA’s...
New Greenland-Nunavut Fisheries Committee won’t set harvest limits
Northern News Services
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August 15, 2025
'Vital that we protect and preserve the waters and animals so Inuit can continue to sustain our families long into the future,' says NTI president The governments of Greenland and Nunavut held their first joint committee meeting to prioritize...
‘60 Minutes’ runs propaganda for greedy Australian mining company, Trump’s Greenland takeover
Green Left
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August 14, 2025
Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program shown on Channel Nine on August 10 as a “propaganda broadcast” for an Australian mining company...
There’s no such thing as a ‘coolcation’ — you’ll be sweating buckets on your Arctic getaway
CNN
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August 18, 2025
Follow There used to be places to go to escape the heat on our summer vacations. You could venture to Norway to see its world-famous fjords. A trip to Scotland for a temperate round of golf. Visiting Sweden’s Lapland could bring you face to face...
Trump’s mineral megadeal is bypassing US laws
E&E News
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August 18, 2025
The Trump administration is quietly taking steps to circumvent federal laws in its quest to bolster U.S. mineral production. When Trump officials forged a multibillion dollar deal to become the biggest stakeholder in a Las Vegas-based company...
After Trump’s Greenland Gambit, Denmark Bets on Europe
International Policy Digest
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August 15, 2025
In early July, Denmark took the EU’s “top job,” assuming the rotating presidency of the 27-member bloc for the next six months. It inherited a docket as heavy as at any point in recent memory: war in Ukraine and the Middle East, a climate crisis...
“Record-breaking” glacial melt in Svalbard
Cosmos
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August 18, 2025
Glaciers in Arctic Svalbard experienced unprecedented melting during summer 2024, contributing to global sea-level rise. Credit: Thomas V Schuler. New research shows the summer of 2024 was a “record-breaking” melt season in Svalbard, raising...
Hunting, pollution and tourism in EU threatening some seal species into extinction
The Journal
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August 15, 2025
FROM THE STORMY North Sea in Belgium, to the sun-warmed sea caves of the Greek islands, Europe’s seals are facing a growing crisis. Once driven to near extinction, species such as the grey seal, harbour seal and Mediterranean monk seal are meant...
Falling ice accelerates Greenland glacier retreat
Muser Press
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August 14, 2025
Summary: Iceberg calving – when large chunks of ice break off a glacier and plunge into the sea – is a major driver of Greenland’s rapid ice loss. A new study published in Nature reveals that the impact of falling ice does more than create...
Letters to the Editor: Secretary's willingness to tamper with past climate reports is dangerous
Los Angeles Times
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August 14, 2025
Aug. 14, 2025 5 AM PT To the editor: U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is intending to review and potentially alter the nation’s next climate science report (“Energy secretary says Trump administration may alter past National Climate...
'60 Minutes' program propaganda for greedy Australian mining company and Trump’s Greenland takeover
Green Left
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August 14, 2025
Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program shown on Channel Nine on August 10 as a “propaganda broadcast” for an Australian mining company...