Science News for Kids » climate change; global warming; Greenland; glaciers; sea level rise; extreme weather; City University of New York; Marco Tedesco; Dorthe Dahl-Jensen; University of Copenhagen; satellites; observatory; http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Wed, 22 May 2013 22:09:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hot summer for a cold island http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/rare-heat-wave-rolled-over-greenland-in-july-thawing-its-ice-and-snow/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/rare-heat-wave-rolled-over-greenland-in-july-thawing-its-ice-and-snow/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:00:21 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=13629 The large iceberg at top-left in this satellite photograph broke off from a frozen river in July. The ice island is twice the size of Manhattan. Higher temperatures around Greenland probably caused the breakup. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

A rare heat wave rolled over Greenland in July, thawing its ice and snow ]]> The large iceberg at top-left in this satellite photograph broke off from a frozen river in July. The ice island is twice the size of Manhattan. Higher temperatures around Greenland probably caused the breakup. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

A rare heat wave rolled over Greenland in July, thawing its ice and snow ]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/08/rare-heat-wave-rolled-over-greenland-in-july-thawing-its-ice-and-snow/feed/ 0