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River in northwestern Canada caused global cooling 13,000 years ago: study

13 July 2018 Allison Chandler, CBC News 1 Comment Arctic Ocean, climate change, currents, global warming, Mackenzie River, North Atlantic, Northwest Territories, NWT

A massive freshwater flood that caused a millennium-long global cooling event came from the Mackenzie River, according to a new

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)

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Ocean acidification strong off Alaska

16 November 20155 January 2016 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic, climate, currents, NOAA, Science

The Arctic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean, along with Antarctic waters, are acidifying faster than the rest of the world’s

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves

25 August 201416 April 2015 Mia Bennett 0 Comments climate, currents, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Inuit

Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river

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The waterline is unusually far out at one of Kemi’s most popular swimming spots.(Riikka Rautiainen / Yle)

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Finland’s northern waters receding

13 June 2014 Yle News 0 Comments boating, currents, Finnish Metrological Institute, Gulf of Bothnia, weather

The water level along the northern Finnish coastline of the Gulf of Bothnia is expected to be exceptional low this

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