by faster | May 25, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: MSN DATE: May 25, 2021 SNIP: Greenland’s melting ice sheet is unleashing an astonishing amount of mercury into the nation’s rivers and fjords. Downstream of three glaciers in the southwest, researchers have found coastal ecosystems are swimming in...
by faster | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: CNN DATE: December 8, 2020 SNIP: Bitterly cold, frozen and inhospitable to nearly all wildlife apart from polar bears. This is the image of the Arctic that comes to mind for many. But in a matter of decades — a blink of an eye in the history of this...
by faster | May 14, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: May 14, 2020 SNIP: Climate change has increased the risk of a huge landslide in an Alaskan fjord that could cause a catastrophic tsunami, scientists said Thursday. Warming temperatures have caused the retreat of a glacier that helps...
by faster | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: March 23, 2020 SNIP: East Antarctic’s Denman Canyon is the deepest land gorge on Earth, reaching 3,500m below sea-level. It’s also filled top to bottom with ice, which US space agency (Nasa) scientists reveal in a new report has a...
by faster | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: March 11, 2020 SNIP: The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date. The ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out...
