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NASA doesn’t just search for life on other planets, its satellites also search the Earth for evidence of melting glaciers. Their "IceSat," which uses lasers to measure the thickness of ice, has discovered that Arctic ice is vanishing 50% faster than expected–at a rate of almost 500 cubic miles per year, since 2004.The Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

On BBC News, Roger Harrabin quotes climate researcher Seymour Laxon as saying, "We have to be cautious until our data has been properly analyzed as part of a climate model, but this does suggest that the Arctic might be ice-free in summer for a day at least by the end of the decade.
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The Arctic is melting and the sea level is rising–but it won’t rise evenly around the globe. In the US, oceanographers tell us that the East coast will be the first place in the US that will be inundated. From Cape Hatteras to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster in the East than they are in the rest of the world. Since 1990, the Atlantic Ocean has been rising at an annual rate that is 3 to 4 times faster than the global average.
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The next war may be when China tries to reclaim Taiwan OR it may be when Russia tries to reclaim the Arctic. Russia’s defense minister says the military will deploy two army brigades–of thousands of soldiers each–to help protect the nation’s interests in the Arctic. Russia, the US, Canada, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to claim parts of the Arctic, which are believed to hold up to a quarter of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and gas.
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