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Experts warn first-ever rain in Greenland ice sheet shows risks of climate change

Rain poured on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet for the first time in recorded history in August. It didn't even make the news.

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Antarctica’s ice could cross this scary threshold within 40 years
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Antarctica’s ice could cross this scary threshold within 40 years

“Rapid and unstoppable” sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers might be inevitable unless nations commit to even lower emissions—and fast, a new study says.
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes "point of no return"
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes "point of no return"

Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking.
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Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way

Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way

Studying Antarctica is critical to combating climate change, but most scientists can’t travel to the continent this upcoming season.
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East Antarctica ice sheet vulnerable to melting in more bad climate change news

We are rapidly approaching that barrier referred to in scientific circles as the What-the-Fck-Is-the-Point? point.

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Greenland’s ice sheet is melting

Studies show that the oceans are warming, and Antarctica's ice is melting. Now there is a new area where the ice is melting, Greenland's ice sheets.

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