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A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland

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A glimpse into the rare earth riches of Greenland

Photographer Jonas Kako travelled to Greenland to explore how mining for the rare earth elements and minerals that are vital for new green technologies is impacting locals

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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

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A protester holds a sign reading 'We are not for sale' in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland

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Why does the United States want to buy Greenland?

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Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and could melt again

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Meltwater bursts through Greenland ice in first-of-a-kind eruption

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ANTARCTICA - FEBRUARY 15: Melting icebergs are seen on Horseshoe Island as Turkish scientists conduct fieldwork on Horseshoe Island within 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition under the coordination of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) MAM Polar Research Institute with the joint responsibilities of the Turkish Presidency and Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology in Antarctica, on February 15, 2023. Turkish scientists sailed with the 80-meter Chilean-flagged research ship 'Betanzos' for nearly a month as part of the 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition. During the voyage, Turkish scientists arrived at Horseshoe Island via a new transit channel developed in the Gullet and Barlas Channel, which was previously covered in ice due to melting sea ice caused by global climate change. The minimum width of sea ice in Antarctica for 2023 fell to 1.79 million square kilometers, the lowest level on record, on February 21. While this data is 1.05 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average, it also points out that a new record decrease is experienced every year. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Sea level may have been higher than it is now just 6000 years ago

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The ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland

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Next 10,000 years of Greenland ice sheet could be decided this century

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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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Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers

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Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

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Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100

The amount of sea level rise coastal cities are facing in the coming century from melting ice could be roughly halved if the world meets the Paris Agreement’s toughest goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C

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