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Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland

Robert Hunziker — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:50:39 +0000

Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it’s so big it’s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull’s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That’s bad news for pretty much everybody on the planet.

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Exhausted Polar Bear Wanders Into Siberian City

The CNCL Team — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:20:16 +0000

A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometers from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia. Climate change has been damaging polar bears’ sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.

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Scientists Shocked by Arctic Permafrost Thawing 70 Years Sooner Than Predicted

The CNCL Team — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 03:57:25 +0000

Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.

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