News tagged with greenland
Related topics: climate change , glaciers , sea level , ice , ice sheet
Constant sunlight linked to summer suicide spike
Suicide rates in Greenland increase during the summer, peaking in June. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry speculate that insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 07, 2009 |
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NASA flies to Greenland to extend polar science
Imagine a piece of ice 1,000 miles long, 400 miles wide, and 2 miles thick in the center. That's the Greenland ice sheet. But that island-sized piece of ice is melting, so NASA researchers are flying to the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Rising sea levels set to have major impacts around the world
Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown
The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State.
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Arctic heats up more than other places
Temperature change in the Arctic is happening at a greater rate than other places in the Northern Hemisphere, and this is expected to continue in the future.
Jan 16, 2009 |
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