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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For the first time, oceanographic data from northeast Greenland reveal the long-term impact of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. The observed increase in freshwater content will affect conditions in all of Greenland's fjords and, ultimately, the global ocean currents that keep the Greenland ice sheet melting.
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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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