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Arctic Siberia Summers 10 Degree Celsius Warmer in Last Interglacial, New Study Reveals
A new study reveals that Arctic Siberia experienced summer temperatures up to 10 degree Celsius warmer than today during the Last Interglacial period, which occurred approximately 115,000–130,000 years ago. Researchers analysed sediment cores and fossil records from the Dmitry Laptev Strait to reconstruct past environments. The study found signif...
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Austria's Alpine Refuges And Trails Crumble As Climate Warms
Experts say warmer temperatures across the Alps are accelerating glacier melt and thawing permafrost, the year-round ice that binds together giant slabs of rock.
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Siberian Craters Explained: Thawing Permafrost and Methane Gas Trigger Explosive Craters
Researchers have revealed the cause behind the enormous craters found in Siberia's permafrost, linking them to thawing conditions and explosive methane gas releases. As the surface melts, water seeps into ancient cryopegs, pockets of salty water trapped beneath the permafrost. The resulting pressure build-up causes cracks to form, leading to explos...
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'Zombie' Virus Which Spent 48,500 Years Frozen In Arctic Could Spark Deadly Pandemic, Warn Scientists
The scientists stated that the melting Arctic permafrost could release the 'zombie viruses' and trigger a catastrophic global health emergency
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5 Points On 48,500-Year-Old 'Zombie Virus' Revived By Scientists
As the global temperature is rising, a number of glaciers and permafrost are melting, releasing microbes trapped in the icy grip for centuries. Among them is a roughly 50,000-year-old 'zombie virus', which has been revived.
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Himalayan Plateau Threatening Rapid Fall Down Due To Melting Permafrost: Study
Himalayan Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is threatening rapid fall down due to permafrost melting brought by global warming, as per a research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
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Arctic May Have Crossed Key Threshold, Emitting Several Tons Of Carbon
The Arctic is undergoing a profound, rapid and unmitigated shift into a new climate state, one that is greener, features far less ice, and is a net source of greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost, according to a major new federal assessment of the region released Tuesday.
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Norway's 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Entrance Repaired After Global Warming Thaws Arctic Ice
The 'Doomsday' seed vault in Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole seeks to safeguard seeds by keeping them safe in natural permafrost from cataclysms such as nuclear war or disease.
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The Arctic Is Being Utterly Transformed - And We're Just Starting To Learn The Consequences
It's the fastest-warming part of the planet -- and the impacts will be felt far, far afield. Among many other assorted impacts, the rapidly melting Arctic is expected to flood shorelines as Greenland loses ice more and more rapidly (it contains some 20 feet of potential sea level rise), further pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as permafros...
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Permafrost: Hiding a Climate Time Bomb?
On the front line of climate change in the Canadian Arctic, scientists hunt for clues to a potentially catastrophic global warming trend: melting permafrost.
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Canada's Frozen North Feels Financial Burn of Global Warming
Climate change is taking a heavy economic toll on Canada's far north, with buildings collapsing as melting permafrost destroys foundations, rivers running low and wildfires all a drain on the region's limited finances, senior government officials said.
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With Glaciers as Backdrop, Barack Obama Uses Alaska Trip to Push Climate Agenda
President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at showing how the state's melting permafrost and eroding coastlines are a preview of bigger disasters to come unless the world does more to slow climate change.
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Arctic Siberia Summers 10 Degree Celsius Warmer in Last Interglacial, New Study Reveals
A new study reveals that Arctic Siberia experienced summer temperatures up to 10 degree Celsius warmer than today during the Last Interglacial period, which occurred approximately 115,000–130,000 years ago. Researchers analysed sediment cores and fossil records from the Dmitry Laptev Strait to reconstruct past environments. The study found signif...
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Austria's Alpine Refuges And Trails Crumble As Climate Warms
Experts say warmer temperatures across the Alps are accelerating glacier melt and thawing permafrost, the year-round ice that binds together giant slabs of rock.
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Siberian Craters Explained: Thawing Permafrost and Methane Gas Trigger Explosive Craters
Researchers have revealed the cause behind the enormous craters found in Siberia's permafrost, linking them to thawing conditions and explosive methane gas releases. As the surface melts, water seeps into ancient cryopegs, pockets of salty water trapped beneath the permafrost. The resulting pressure build-up causes cracks to form, leading to explos...
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'Zombie' Virus Which Spent 48,500 Years Frozen In Arctic Could Spark Deadly Pandemic, Warn Scientists
The scientists stated that the melting Arctic permafrost could release the 'zombie viruses' and trigger a catastrophic global health emergency
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5 Points On 48,500-Year-Old 'Zombie Virus' Revived By Scientists
As the global temperature is rising, a number of glaciers and permafrost are melting, releasing microbes trapped in the icy grip for centuries. Among them is a roughly 50,000-year-old 'zombie virus', which has been revived.
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Himalayan Plateau Threatening Rapid Fall Down Due To Melting Permafrost: Study
Himalayan Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is threatening rapid fall down due to permafrost melting brought by global warming, as per a research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
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Arctic May Have Crossed Key Threshold, Emitting Several Tons Of Carbon
The Arctic is undergoing a profound, rapid and unmitigated shift into a new climate state, one that is greener, features far less ice, and is a net source of greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost, according to a major new federal assessment of the region released Tuesday.
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Norway's 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Entrance Repaired After Global Warming Thaws Arctic Ice
The 'Doomsday' seed vault in Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole seeks to safeguard seeds by keeping them safe in natural permafrost from cataclysms such as nuclear war or disease.
-
The Arctic Is Being Utterly Transformed - And We're Just Starting To Learn The Consequences
It's the fastest-warming part of the planet -- and the impacts will be felt far, far afield. Among many other assorted impacts, the rapidly melting Arctic is expected to flood shorelines as Greenland loses ice more and more rapidly (it contains some 20 feet of potential sea level rise), further pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as permafros...
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Permafrost: Hiding a Climate Time Bomb?
On the front line of climate change in the Canadian Arctic, scientists hunt for clues to a potentially catastrophic global warming trend: melting permafrost.
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Canada's Frozen North Feels Financial Burn of Global Warming
Climate change is taking a heavy economic toll on Canada's far north, with buildings collapsing as melting permafrost destroys foundations, rivers running low and wildfires all a drain on the region's limited finances, senior government officials said.
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With Glaciers as Backdrop, Barack Obama Uses Alaska Trip to Push Climate Agenda
President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at showing how the state's melting permafrost and eroding coastlines are a preview of bigger disasters to come unless the world does more to slow climate change.
