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The climate change tipping points getting ever closer

Fresh alarm has been raised about the state of the climate after experts announced that ice-free Arctic summers are now unavoidable.

The Week

Why Did the Vikings Abandon Greenland? New Study Pieces Together a Complex Answer

Sea level rise played an important role in pushing the Vikings out of Greenland -- but there was more than one reason why they left.

Inverse

Greenland's melting ice could be changing our oceans. Just ask the whales

The massive ice sheet on Greenland is shrinking as the climate gets hotter, pouring fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean. That could be setting off a chain reaction that's altering ocean ecosystems.

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Thousands of people were killed and hundreds of building were destroyed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey’s southeastern region, near the Syrian border, early on Monday. Just a few hours later as rescue efforts were underway, an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hit central Turkey. Another…

The Times of India

Eight of the most remote and beautiful but brutal jobs if you want to leave it all behind

You could join the Sirius Dog Patrol in Greenland, become a marine management officer in Tristan da Cunha and start maintaining a lighthouse on an island off Australia

Daily Mirror

Edinburgh to get hit with snow and more wintry weather with 'two inches to fall per hour'

Forecasters fear another cold snap is on its way from Greenland with weather maps showing the potential for two inches of snow to fall per hour early next month.

Edinburgh Live

Scotland faces 'two inches of snow per hour' as maps show more wintry weather on way

Forecasters fear another cold snap is on its way from Greenland early next month.

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New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike

New ice core data shows Greenland is the warmest it's been in more than 1,000 years

The Independent UK

Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic is getting rainier and seasons are shifting, with broad disturbances for people, ecosystems and wildlife

In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the year. These conditions are rapidly changing as the Arctic warms.

The Conversation

Oldest known DNA describes a lush landscape in Greenland 2 million years ago

The recovered DNA contains fragments of genetic material from plants, corals, mastodons and other animals.

Axios

Powerful "Greenland Block" may raise odds of a White Christmas for some

The weather pattern is uncannily similar to the winter of 2009-10, which produced Mid-Atlantic blizzards.

Axios

The oldest DNA ever found reveals a snapshot of a vanished world

At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years.

The Conversation

Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world

Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.

Reuters

Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years

The microscopic fragments, found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland, are twice the age of the previous oldest DNA.

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The Guardian - US

World faces ‘terminal’ loss of Arctic sea ice during summers, report warns

The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities, according to a major new study

Belfast Live

Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected and it could impact Belfast sea levels, says glacier expert

"Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of several factor that contributes to global sea level rise"

Irish Mirror

Greenland ice sheet melting faster than thought and will impact Ireland, say scientists

Glacier expert Dr Donald Slater says Ireland will be affected as melting glaciers contribute to sea level rises

The National (Scotland)

Researchers find world's second largest ice sheet may be more vulnerable to climate change

RESEARCHERS from the University of Edinburgh have found that climate change may be having more impact on the melting Greenland ice sheet than…

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The Conversation

Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

The Independent UK

Trump floated idea of swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland despite criticism, new book claims

The former president once compared the purchase of the Scandanavian island to a ‘large real estate deal’

The Guardian - UK

World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds

Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change

The Conversation

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It's losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

I’m standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, calving an immense iceberg.

Axios

Study: Greenland ice melt will raise sea levels by nearly a foot

Human-caused global warming has has locked in a certain amount of sea level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

The Independent UK

'Zombie ice' from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches

A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches

Daily Mirror

Ancient half-blind Arctic shark that can live for 500 years found in the Caribbean

The rarely-seen Greenland shark was found swimming off the coast of Belize in what was described as the first-ever reported sighting of the fish in western Caribbean waters

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