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1. Reports: Sea levels rising fastest along New Jersey coast
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... by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania. Two papers published in the journal Geology said several factors may be responsible, including the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Although the ...

2. Study: Even moderate global warming would cause dramatic sea level rise
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... global warming scenarios. The findings indicate that sea level during the last interglacial stage rose for centuries at least two to three times faster than the recent rate, and that both the Greenland ...

3. Scientists learning about climate change by studying the Arctic’s Intuit people
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... leaders at CoP15 must take the strongest possible measures to protect our Arctic homeland," read the call for action from the ICC, which represents approximately 160,000 Inuit living in Greenland, Russia, ...

4. Global warming: Four degrees of devastation
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... 2100, leaving hundreds of millions homeless. This will head to 12 meters in the coming centuries as the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets melt, according to papers presented at the conference ...

5. Climate change actually causing some U.S. glaciers to grow
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... glacial ice is in Antarctica and Greenland, but glaciers are found on nearly every continent, even Africa. The National Snow and Ice Data Center finds most of the world's glaciers are thinning, as more ...

6. Lester Brown says ‘we can’t afford to let the planet get much hotter’
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...  Already the massive Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at accelerating rates. If they melt completely, it would raise sea levels by 12 meters (39 feet). Mountain glaciers around the ...

7. Civilization can be saved from climate change and food shortages
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... emissions. Rising temperatures bring crop-shrinking heat waves, melting ice sheets, rising sea level, and shrinking mountain glaciers. With both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets melting at ...

8. No progress expected in whaling stalemate
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... permission to hunt more whales for subsistence purposes this year. "Greenland which belongs to Denmark, of course, is looking to have a quota of 10 humpback whales for next year," he said. "All of ...

9. Rising sea levels threaten Eastern cities
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Will Manhattan one day be a beach resort? New York City and Boston are among the cities in the Northeast that would be threatened in this century by rising sea levels due to the melting of the Greenland ...

10. Earth's Arctic freezer turning Into hothouse
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... able to turn with reckless abandon." The loss of Arctic sea ice won’t raise sea levels directly but as it acts to warm the entire region that will affect the massive Greenland ice sheet. If the whole ...