Topic: greenland

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise: study

Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise: study

Kelly Macnamara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 07:07 AM

Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise, with potentially "ominous" implications over this century as temperatures continue to rise, according to a study published Monday. Read more »

‘Buhay sa Gulay’

‘Buhay sa Gulay’

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 05:03 PM

Residents harvest vegetables grown in New Greenland in Barangay Bagong Silangan, Quezon City on Thursday. The ‘Buhay sa Gulay’ project, a 7-hectare urban gardening project implemented by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the local government of Quezon City, aims to help residents of Bagong Silangan cope with the ill-effects of COVID-19 and combat hunger and poverty in the area by providing them a source of income.  Read more »

Ice loss to add 0.4C to global temperatures: study

Ice loss to add 0.4C to global temperatures: study

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 04:32 AM

PARIS - The loss of billions of tons of ice from Earth's frozen spaces is likely to increase global temperatures by an additional 0.4 degrees Celsius, according to research Tuesday highlighting the danger of a "vicious circle" of warming.   Read more »

Sea level: Greenland ice loss worst in 12,000 years

Sea level: Greenland ice loss worst in 12,000 years

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 01 03:55 AM

PARIS - Ice loss from Greenland's massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is held in check, scientists said Wednesday. Read more »

Earth's ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios

Earth's ice sheets tracking worst-case climate scenarios

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 02 04:00 AM

PARIS - The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 meters, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea-level rise, researchers have said, highlighting flaws in current climate change models. Read more »

Greenland ice melting past 'tipping point': study

Greenland ice melting past 'tipping point': study

Camille Bas Wholert, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 18 06:20 AM

The melting of Greenland's ice cap has gone so far that it is now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice even if global warming were to end today, according to researchers. Read more »

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