Signs of global warming have hit Greenland hard this year, with 97 percent of the ice sheet surface experiencing thawing by July 12, according to NASA.
Satellites revealed extensive, sudden surface melting in Greenland in mid-July 2012 (Image: NASA)
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The Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half a century last week when a break-up sent a 100 squrae-mile chunk of ice drifting into the North Strait. Scientists say Greenland is losing ice mass at an increasing rate as the debate over what it means for global warming heats up:
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Whale conservation groups were steeling themselves for the worst, but they were in for a surprise.
A 24-year ban on commercial whaling that was in danger of being lifted will remain in place. The International Whaling Commission, which was created by the United Nations in the 1980s to regulate whale hunting worldwide, decided Wednesday that there was too much opposition and too many unanswered questions to allow some countries to hunt whales with fewer restrictions. The decision came at the end of the commission’s three-day meeting this year in Morocco.
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