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• East Antarctic ice sheet losing mass from last 3 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, November 23 (ANI): An analysis of data from a gravity-measuring satellite mission has determined that the East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the last three years.According to a report by BBC News, the data comes from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission.The scientists ...
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• Greenland ice loss responsible for a sixth of global sea-level rise

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, November 23 (ANI): In a long term research, scientists have found that Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise. According to a report in New Scientist, Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and ...
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• Greenland ice loss responsible for a sixth of sea-level rise

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov 22 (ANI): Between 2000 and 2008, Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice, which is responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise, says scientists.Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues say that the bad news is that the rate of ice loss is increasing.To reach ...
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• Lithium for Electricity Storage Batteries to be found in Bolivia, Mongolia, China, and now in Greenland.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 510
  From the Energy & Capital website information of value: On January 1, 2010, for the first time in history, Greenland’s $273 billion Rare Earth resource will become private property. And one company will control it all. “Dear Reader” writes, Keith Kohl, the editor of that investment newsletter: “On ...
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• U.S. group sees worsening coastal flooding threat at Norfolk, Virginia

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 143
  U.S. group sees worsening coastal flooding threat Residents walk home at a flooded street after Hurricane Ike hit in Galveston, Texas September 14, 2008.  Photo: Carlos Barria by Richard Cowen, Reuters, November 20, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Fast-melting ice from ...
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• The Arctic Melts

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  THE ARCIC MELTS   Global warming, the gradual warming of the earth, has caused the ice caps to start melting.  The melting of the Arctic ice cap is causing global disasters. Scientists are working on finding the causes of the Arctic melts, the rate of the melting ice, and its effect on our oceans. ...
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• Rising Sea Levels Would Hit U.S. East Coast Hardest

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true.Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are predicated on a one-meter rise in sea level ...
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• Pornsawat Wathanakul, Greenland’s Bureau of Mining and Petroleum and True North Gems: The Smoking Gun of Collusion?

  
  Fair Trade Jewelry — Authority: 406
  Introduction: We now return back to Greenland, where the Inuits represented by the 16th August Union, continue in their negotiations with the Bureau of Mining and Petroleum (BMP). Despite the advent of the new home rule government, and the optimism presented in early posts, The BMP continue to deny Inuit small scale ...
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• Research Shows Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 494
  Research published in the journal Science late last week confirms that melting of the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated in recent years , and is contributing to seal level rise. An average 273 gigatons of ice has melted away annually between 2006 to 2008, leading to three-hundredths of an inch of sea level rise, ...
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• Greenland Ice Melting Faster Than Ever

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 577
  Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on new research on the Greenland ice sheet (cross-checked with two different methods that yielded the same result), showing that the ice is disappearing much faster than previously believed . The dimensions of this frosty giant go way beyond human imagination. With a surface ...
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• Cockpit Chronicles: Come along and enjoy the view

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: The Cockpit Chronicles "Descend to 1-3-0." "Descend to 1-2-0." I found myself listening to London Control while admiring one of the all-time greatest views Ive ever seen. "Slow to 220 knots. Fly heading 1-7-0." As we banked to the right, I looked over my right shoulder at the London eye, a blue ...
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• Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster Than Ever

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 138
  Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in  Science . Read More: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6659.html
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• Greenland ice melting faster than ever

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 486
  University of Bristol News : Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by ...
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• North East Bird Reports 15 November

  
  Bird North East — Authority: 132
  Water Rail, Saltholme RSPB courtesy Ray Wilby Northumberland Male Bearded Tit again at Holy Island Lough Black Guillemot again off Stag Rocks; also two Slavonian Grebe & Long-tailed Duck Water Pipit again at St Marys Island Nine Greenland White-fronted Goose at Grindon Lough; also Short-eared Owl ...
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• McDonald’s Abandons Iceland

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 555
  It’s official – even McDonald’s has pulled out of the nearly bankrupt nation. The fast food giant recently closed its business in Iceland, due to the financial crisis making it too expensive to operate here. Just one year after a financial crash that almost left the island bankrupt, it’s hit with yet another ...
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• BBCs Richard Black: Greenland ice loss accelerating

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 143
  Greenland ice loss accelerating by Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website, November 12, 2009 The Ilulissat glacier has retreated by approximately 15 km over the past decade The ...
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• Video From Flightsim Greenland

  
  simFlight.COM Flight Simulation News Source — Authority: 142
  Ulrik Motzfeldt from Greenland tells us that “…. FlightSim Greenland have published a video for Kulusuk (BGKK) Project at YouTube. The project has over 20,000 sq.km new mesh, coastlines and islands. Custom buildings, corrected airport and much more. Visit FlightSim Greenland at www.flightsim.gl . You can watch ...
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• Conference investigates high male youth suicide rates

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 529
  An international conference held in Nuuk has sought to understand why so many young men in the circumpolar region take their own lives. Despite declining overall rates in recent years, in Greenland and in other Arctic territories, around two-thirds of all suicides are performed by young males aged 15-25. Siku News ...
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• Michiel van den Broeke et al., Science 326, Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 143
  Science (13 November 2009): Vol. 326, No. 5955, pp. 984-986; DOI: 10.1126/science.1178176   Reports Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss Michiel van den Broeke, 1 ,* Jonathan Bamber, 2 Janneke Ettema, 1 Eric Rignot, 3 ,4 Ernst Schrama, 5 Willem Jan ...
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• Greenlands mass loss increases to 0.75 mm per year of sea level rise, a 50% increase over period before 2006

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 143
  Greenland ice loss speeds ahead by environmentalresearchweb, November 13, 2009 Between 2000 and 2008, the Greenland Ice Sheet shrank by roughly 1500 gigatons, research by a team from the Netherlands, UK and US has revealed. The mass loss was split equally between surface processes, such as runoff and precipitation, ...
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