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One of the World’s Coldest Places Is Now the Warmest it’s Been in 1,000 Years, Scientists Say

Ice in Greenland, one of the planet's refrigerators, is defrosting, leading to melting events that could raise sea levels 20 inches by the end of the century.

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier front, part of the Greenland ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2022. Credit: Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/Getty Images
The Greenland Ice Sheet, which has enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 20 feet, melted away completely at least once about 1 million years ago, new research shows. Credit: Joshua Brown

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn

In this aerial view from a drone water carves a winding channel down the surface of the melting Longyearbreen glacier during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 31, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Annual Report Card Marks Another Disastrous Year for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

Water from the Greenland ice sheet flows through heather and peat during unseasonably warm weather on Aug. 1, 2019. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Going, Going ... Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s

By Bob Berwyn

Greenland ice sheet

Study: Predicting Tipping Points Within Reach

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

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