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Scientific American17d
What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
The Daily Galaxy on MSN16d
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Reveals an Unexpected Discovery That Researchers Never Saw Coming
The remote and often unforgiving surface of Greenland’s ice sheet has long been a subject of intrigue for scientists. What lies beneath the thick layers of snow and ice has been largely a mystery, ...
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Project Iceworm: America’s Cold War Plot To Build A Nuclear City Underneath Greenland
As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Scientists Shed Light on the Mysterious ‘Cold Blob’ in the North Atlantic Amid a Search for Its Cause
In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...
‘Secret tunnels’ under Greenland may be the safest place if war breaks out
First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of ...
Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world?
A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in ...
Arctic heatwave shatters Greenland, Iceland records; could hit monsoons
The findings matched with data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service showing May this year to be the second-warmest globally on record ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer23d
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave
COPENHAGEN — Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report ...