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Rapidly thinning Northeast Greenland ice sheet could add more to sea-level rise than thought

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Melting Greenland ice raises sea level more than previously thought

Melting Greenland ice sheet adds more to sea-level rise than previously thought

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Satellite image of Jakobshavn glacier,

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Engineering firms explore plan to slow melting of Greenland glacier

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Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise

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Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

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A broad cowtail stingray (Pastinachus ater)

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Watch stingrays make odd clicking sounds as they glide through the sea

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Rock pooling with Helen Scales

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Rock pool science with marine biologist Helen Scales

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For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021, rain fell on the high central region of the Greenland ice sheet. This extraordinary event was followed by the surface snow and ice rapidly melting. Researchers discovered that it wasn?t the rain that caused the melt, it was unusually warm ?atmospheric rivers? that swept along Greenland, bringing potent melt conditions when the melt season would normally be drawing to a close. Thanks to detailed measurements from the network of automatic weather stations on the ice set up by the Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland coupled with measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites in space helped researchers understand the exact processes and dynamics of how the ice melts.

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Feedback loop in Greenland amplified ice melt from warm weather

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A polar bear

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Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

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A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

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Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

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RRS Sir David Attenborough completes ice trials in Antarctica

The RRS Sir David Attenborough has completed ice trials during its maiden voyage to Antarctica

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Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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Rising seas could submerge Rio and Jakarta by 2100 – what can we do?

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Collapse of doomsday glacier in Antarctica could begin within a decade

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RRS Sir David Attenborough and Boaty McBoatface visit London

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