Warming Earth changes geography
January 17th, 2007 • Climate Change, Ecological
The New York Times has an interesting article on the effect global warming has had on the Arctic. Melting glaciers are changing coastlines, uncovering islands, etc. Pretty sobering stuff.
All over Greenland and the Arctic, rising temperatures are not simply melting ice; they are changing the very geography of coastlines. Nunataks — “lonely mountains” in Inuit — that were encased in the margins of Greenland’s ice sheet are being freed of their age-old bonds, exposing a new chain of islands, and a new opportunity for Arctic explorers to write their names on the landscape.
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