Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "ice melting"

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    • Arctic Sea ice shrinks to second lowest on record 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 23, 2020, on page A8)
      Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists said Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region. ...

    • Melting Greenland ice may leak waste 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 27, 2016, on page A13)
      A snow-covered former US army base in Greenland — dubbed “a city under ice” — could leak pollutants into the environment as the climate changes, raising difficult questions over who is responsible for a clean-up. In 1959, ...

    • A trillion-ton iceberg, the size of Cebu island, redraws Antarctica's map 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 14, 2017, on page A12)
      One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from the Antarctic Peninsula, providing a glimpse of how the Antarctic ice sheet might ultimately start to fall apart. The iceberg, which is roughly the size of the US ...