Lorsque Joseph Cook a atterri pour la première fois sur la calotte glaciaire du Groenland en 2010, il s’attendait à voir un environnement blanc immaculé. Ce qu’il a trouvé était un « patchwork coloré » – des noirs et des gris aux verts, violets et bruns, avec des ruisseaux de fonte bleu
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Pour la première fois, les données océanographiques du nord-est du Groenland révèlent l’impact à long terme de la fonte de la calotte glaciaire groenlandaise. L’augmentation de la teneur en eau douce observée affectera les conditions de tous les fjords du Groenland et, à terme, les courants océaniques mondiaux qui maintiennent
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Ice melting is accelerating in Greenland. The massive introduction of freshwater into the Atlantic could cause very severe droughts in the Sahel and a major migration crisis. Two areas that are at odds with each other but are nevertheless linked by global warming: Greenland, an uninhabited icy land, and the Sahel, a tropical zone.
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3.7 billion years! This is the age of life on Earth, revealed by the discovery of mineral concretions formed by bacteria found at the bottom of the ice. Australian geologists have just discovered traces of microbial activity in Greenland dating back 3.7 billion years, or 200 million years.
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13/11/2015 The melting of two Greenland glaciers would raise sea levels by 1 meter An American study, conducted by Jérémie Mouginot (University of California at Irvine) and published Thursday, November 12 in the journal Science, shows that one of the three main glaciers in northeast Greenland,
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