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Frontier Oil Exploration
Dwindling oil supplies mean exploration drilling is moving to far-flung reaches of the Earth. What difficulties does this pose, and what could the environmental impacts be? Earth Science - Earth's Resources - Learning Points. In the USA,...
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Climate Cycles
How climatologists use ice cores, cylindrical cones of ice drilled from glaciers, to reveal Earth's historical cycles of climate change. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. The Earth has natural, long cycles of climate. The...
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Changing Polar Ice: Observations and Concerns
This video provides an overview of the North Pole and the surrounding Arctic region, highlighting the characteristics of the ice pack and the impact of climate change. It discusses the thickness and movement of the ice and the increasing...
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Viking Ventures: Navigating the Seas and Shaping Normandy
Journey through the Viking Age as we explore how these formidable Norse explorers mastered the art of navigation without modern tools and left a lasting impact on Normandy. This video delves into the Vikings' sophisticated maritime...
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How the Ilopango Eruption Altered Ancient Civlizations Across the Globe
A recent study of an ice core sample from Greenland has pinpointed the Central American Ilopango mega-eruption to 431 AD. This eruption is believed to have devastated an entire Maya region and caused global cooling that affected climates...
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Monitoring Polar Ice Decline: The Role of Cryosat Satellite in Climate Research
The video discusses the importance of monitoring polar ice decline and introduces the upcoming launch of the Cryosat satellite by the European Space Agency. Cryosat will use radar technology to precisely map changes in the thickness of...
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Greenland's Melting Ice: Impact on Sea Levels and Climate Change
This video highlights the research efforts of glaciologist Jason Box and polar explorer John Helscher in studying the impact of melt water volume on Greenland's ice sheet. Their findings suggest that increased melt water production is...
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Parsnip Pandemonium
Mario’s errant sledging provides the solution to Maggie’s frozen parsnips while Sam and Shane deal with frozen pipes.
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Viking Exploration of the New World
Viking Exploration of the New World investigates the Viking exploration of the New World by researching details of travel and motivations.
Hip Hughes History
The Vikings: Global History Review
Who were the Vikings? How did they live and what was their impact on the world? Check out other World History videos! • World History
Professor Dave Explains
The Development of Plate Tectonics
A paradigm shift in geology occurred with the development of plate tectonics, a theory which allows us to understand so much regarding what we see and experience on Earth's surface. How did this come to be? Who is Alfred Wegener? Who is...
Science360
Changes in Greenland landscape affect carbon balance sheet - Science Nation
Warming temperatures in the Arctic are changing the tundra from a landscape dominated by grasses to one increasingly dominated by woody shrubs. In addition to affecting the habitat of local wildlife such as caribou and musk oxen, these...
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NASA launches laser to scan Earth's polar ice caps
NASA says it plans to launch an advanced laser instrument which would be used to monitor our planet's melting polar ice.
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Sea levels could rise by over 5 meters by the year 3000 if current
Antarctic ice sheet melting could increase sea levels by over five meters by the year 3000 if current warming trends continue.
Step Back History
Did Vikings Beat Columbus to the Americas?
Ask and ye shall receive! After a long, long hiatus to do a bit more reputable history for almost a year, it’s time to delve back into the crank files and check out more theories about visitors to the Americas before Columbus. Today we...
The Viral Fever
Cosmic Journeys: Greenland's Melting Ice
This video explores the significance of Greenland's massive inland ice sheet and how it serves as a laboratory for studying the history of our planet. Scientists are studying the ice sheet to understand how quickly it's melting and how...
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Ozone depletion may have sparked prehistoric extinction event: study
Ozone depletion may have triggered a mass die-off of ancient fish and plants by ultraviolet ray exposure 358 million years ago.
Ancient Lights Media
Denmark
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Denmark.
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Greenland
This clip looks at the physical features, climate, history and culture of Greenland.
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Greenland has lost enough ice to submerge the U.S. in half a meter of water since 2002
Greenland's ice sheet has lost 4,700 gigatons of ice since 2002, enough to submerge the entire U.S. under half a meter of water, according to a Polar Portal study.
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Mathematician uses skills to study Greenland's retreating glaciers
Many outlet glaciers in Greenland feed ice from the land into fjords, where discharge of icebergs and melting of the glaciers by warmer ocean waters contribute to rising sea levels. David Holland of NYU studies what happens in the fjord...
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Greenland Ice Sheet is sliding more than anyone realized, impacting sea level rise!
A National Science Foundation-funded team of researchers from the Universities of Wyoming and Montana has discovered that the Greenland Ice Sheet is sliding more than anyone realized. Surprisingly, they found that the ice slides across...
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Surprisingly large hole found in Arctic’s most stable ice
A huge hole has been discovered in the Arctic’s oldest and thickest ice, previously thought to be the most stable ice in the region.
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Massive melting event strikes Greenland due to heat wave
A ‘massive melting event’ has affected Greenland’s ice sheet during a heat wave that has brought temperatures more than twice as hot as seasonal averages.