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China Muscles In on Race for Piece of Arctic Pie
As Arctic ice continues to melt at a disturbing pace , the "Cold War" in the region is heating up. Global superpowers, excited about the oil, gas, minerals, and shipping lanes that are being made newly...
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Andean Ice That Solidified Over 1,600 Years Melted in 25
The Quelccaya ice cap sits 18,000 feet above sea level, high in the Peruvian Andes, where it earns the title of world's largest tropical ice sheet. But its size is diminishing, and a team of...
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From Melting Glaciers, WWI 'Mummies' Emerge
Time calls it "one of the strangest consequences of global warming yet"—glaciers are melting in the Italian Alps and revealing the mummified corpses of soldiers from World War I. Two, for instance,...
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Seas Rising at Fastest Rate in Nearly 3K Years
It's "extremely likely" that sea levels rose faster in the 20th century than at any other time in the previous 2,700 years "and the rise over the last two decades has been even faster," scientists say....
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Glaciers in Canada's High Arctic Could Vanish
All of nearly 1,800 glaciers on an island in Canada's High Arctic have shrunk since the turn of the century, with three-quarters of them seeing a significant loss, according to a new study warning many...
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UN Report: Sea-Level Rise Worse Than We Thought
The words of Greta Thunberg were still echoing at the UN Climate Action Summit as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report, describing evidence of climate change from...
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Melting Swiss Glaciers Reveal Bodies, Crashed Plane
Switzerland's melting glaciers have been giving up grim secrets amid Europe's heat wave. Two bodies have been found in recent weeks, along with the remains of a plane that crashed in 1968, the Guardian...
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15M Are at Risk From Sudden Glacial Floods
As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe live under the threat of a sudden and deadly outburst flood, a new study finds. More than half...
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Melting Ice Coughs Up 3K-Year-Old Arrow, Good as New
If anyone else had come upon the wooden arrow with feather fletching and a quartzite tip, they might have thought it was new. But as the New York Times reports, glacial archaeologist Espen Finstad...
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