"Sea Level Rise Now" News Digest

Algae, Making Greenland Melt Faster – Quartz

December 22, 2017 By John Englander in Newsletter

Article Synopsis – As ocean temperatures and currents change, new colorful algae – black, green, red, brown – is proliferating in parts of Greenland, as well as Antarctica, making the snow and ice darker, absorbing sunlight and hastening the melt. A new study indicates that ...

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Article Synopsis – Climate change in the Northern Arctic is happening so quickly it has broken one of NOAA’s data-correcting algorithms. The algorithms are in place to prevent data from being contaminated and remove any outliers. The temperatures in Utqiaġvik, Alaska were so warm for November, ...

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Scorched Earth – Grist

December 13, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

Article Synopsis – According to new research, one-third of forests in the American West are not growing back after the wildfires that have been ravaging them. The warmest, driest forests were hit especially hard. As trees disappear, some forests could shift to entirely different ecosystems, like ...

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