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Tag: Greenland
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Science & Tech
Did rising seas drive Vikings out of Greenland?
A new geophysical analysis helps fill gaps in an archeological puzzle: why Norse vanished in the 15th century.
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Science & Tech
Better predictions on rise of oceans on warming Earth
Harvard researchers take sea level fingerprints from theory to fact.
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Science & Tech
Putting ‘the language of the Earth on the agenda’
At Harvard, indigenous Alaskan elder Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq and Polynesian navigator Nainoa Thompson offered a close-to-the-earth perspective on climate change.
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Science & Tech
Straight to the source
As described in an April 23 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), graduate students Eric Morrow and Carling Hay demonstrate the use of a statistical tool called a Kalman smoother to identify “sea level fingerprints” — telltale variations in sea level rise — in a synthetic data set. Using those…
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Campus & Community
Earthwatch comes to Allston
Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental group, announces plans to move its headquarters and staff to a Harvard-owned building in Allston. The group hopes to build partnerships with the community and the University.
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Science & Tech
Arctic ice is thinning steadily
There was a polar bear sighting at Harvard last week. At Pforzheimer House on Thursday (Oct. 2), global warming expert James J. McCarthy delivered a crisp summary of how fast ice is melting in the Arctic — and why we should care. The audience of 80 took in his companion slide show, including images of…