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ice in the Greenland ice sheet, and Arctic methane emissions as the permafrost thaws. The melting of Greenland's ice sheet is linked to polar amplification...59 KB (4,846 words) - 17:24, 2 November 2024
Cape Prince of Wales, just south of the Arctic Circle, the Continental Divide's geographic path runs through Arctic Alaska, where it reaches its more northerly...21 KB (2,397 words) - 15:16, 25 October 2024
The Arctic consists of land, internal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and international waters above the Arctic Circle (66 degrees...53 KB (5,810 words) - 11:11, 18 October 2024
island of Greenland, although its ice sheet and ice-free coastal regions have different climatic conditions. The Arctic waters that are not sea ice in late...62 KB (8,567 words) - 23:56, 3 October 2024
The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern...14 KB (1,672 words) - 10:03, 3 November 2024
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km2...55 KB (11,576 words) - 22:32, 14 October 2024
has already resulted in the profound Arctic sea ice decline, the accelerating melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the thawing of the permafrost landscape...90 KB (18,474 words) - 17:48, 16 October 2024
prevent the ice sheet from flowing further into the Arctic Ocean. The 11 previous episodes of glaciation are notable because the ice sheet grew large enough...163 KB (16,922 words) - 19:50, 31 October 2024
The ocean's Arctic shelf comprises a number of continental shelves, including the Canadian Arctic shelf, underlying the Canadian Arctic Archipelago,...65 KB (6,990 words) - 15:08, 12 August 2024
Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Ice Sheet)Innuitian ice sheet, which extended across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; the Greenland ice sheet; and the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered...16 KB (1,485 words) - 01:34, 23 July 2024
Shelf in the Arctic Ocean—stretches to 1,500 kilometers (930 mi) in width. The South China Sea lies over another extensive area of continental shelf, the...23 KB (2,598 words) - 22:38, 3 November 2024
Pole of inaccessibility (redirect from Arctic pole)northern pole of inaccessibility, sometimes known as the Arctic pole, is located on the Arctic Ocean pack ice at a distance farthest from any landmass...42 KB (4,149 words) - 19:55, 20 October 2024
The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum that addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and the indigenous people of the Arcticregion...43 KB (3,972 words) - 08:06, 24 October 2024
Alfred Wegener (category Explorers of the Arctic)first to overwinter on the inland Greenland ice sheet and the first to bore ice cores on a moving Arctic glacier. Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1...43 KB (4,776 words) - 14:59, 11 September 2024
The continental shelf of the United States is the total of the continental shelves adjacent to the United States. In marine geology, it is the elevated...9 KB (911 words) - 19:14, 3 October 2024
the Arctic, the main human-influenced sources of methane are thawing permafrost, Arctic sea ice melting, clathrate breakdown and Greenland ice sheet melting...26 KB (5,324 words) - 01:34, 28 August 2024
and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice...88 KB (10,417 words) - 21:00, 28 July 2024
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding...36 KB (3,403 words) - 12:51, 3 October 2024
6 °C (1.1 °F). Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet would increase regional temperatures in the Arctic by between 0.5 °C (0.90 °F) and 3 °C (5.4 °F),...32 KB (3,855 words) - 18:37, 31 October 2024
Arctic cooperation and politics are partially coordinated via the Arctic Council, composed of the eight Arctic states: the United States, Canada, Iceland...28 KB (2,928 words) - 11:20, 18 October 2024
- the Prime Minister will agree to expand cooperation on continental defense and in the Arctic, including by modernizing the North American Aerospace Defense
- level. At continental, regional and ocean basin scales, numerous long-term changes in climate have been observed. These include changes in arctic temperatures
- landscape in the frozen heart of Greenland. His dog sled pulled through the Arctic cold near the onset of winter on October 19, 1930, carrying supplies that