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  Dave Yarin

  

  Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Could Raise Sea Levels by Nearly a Foot: Study

  The New York Times - Elena Shao

  The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could eventually raise global sea levels by at least 10 inches even if humans immediately stop burning the fossil fuels that are warming the planet to dangerous levels, according to a new study published on Monday. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, …

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  Dave Yarin

  

  Arctic Warming 4 Times as Fast as the Rest of the Planet, New Analyses Find

  The New York Times - Henry Fountain

  The rapid warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is occurring even faster than previously described, researchers in Finland said Thursday. Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has …

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  Dave Yarin

  Jul 27, 2022
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  Dave Yarin

  

  See How Far Water Levels in Lake Mead Have Fallen

  The New York Times - Winston Choi-Schagrin

  In 2000, Lake Mead was full of deep, midnight-blue water that flooded the banks of the rivers that fed it. But 20 years later, it has shrunken drastically. And its basins are lighter, too, almost teal in places, a sign of increasingly shallow waters connected by extraordinarily skinny canyons. In …

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  Dave Yarin

  

  Deadly Glacier Collapse in Italy Shows Reach of Europe’s New Heat

  The New York Times - Jason Horowitz

  CANAZEI, Italy — Days before a glacier in the Italian Dolomites broke off with the force of a collapsing skyscraper, crushing at least 10 hikers under an avalanche of ice, snow and rock, Carlo Budel heard water running under the ice. “I heard what sounded like a river’s torrent,” said Mr. Budel, who …

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  Dave Yarin

  

  Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History (Published 2022)

  The New York Times - Henry Fountain

  The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere broke a record in May, continuing its relentless climb, scientists said Friday. It is now 50 percent higher than the preindustrial average, before humans began the widespread burning of oil, gas and coal in the late 19th century. There is …