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Collapse 2.0

Consortium News 21 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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Is Industrial Society on the Verge of Collapse?

Democratic Underground 20 Aug 2023
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating ... 250 and 900, while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around A.D.
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Michael Klare: Collapse 2.0

Scheerpost 18 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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NSFW Video Shows Greenland Shark's Heart Beating Outside Its Body

IFL Science 11 Aug 2023
A video posted to Twitter shows the massive heart of a Greenland shark beating – outside the animal’s body ... You can watch researchers with The Physiological Society release a Greenland shark carrying a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT), which helps scientists to track the shark's movements and learn from its migratory habits, below.
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Huge tipping events have dominated the evolution of the climate system

Phys Dot Org 09 Aug 2023
... reports of evidence of melting under the impact of the current climate warming, translating a trend towards a potential tipping point that could accelerate the disappearance at least of Greenland and West Antarctica, with serious repercussions for our societies" says Rousseau.
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The Inner Circle Acknowledges, Sonya Reese Greenland as a Top Pinnacle Professional for her contributions ...

Victoria Advocate 18 Jul 2023
LOS ANGELES, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, SonyaReese Greenland is acknowledged as a Top Pinnacle Professional for her contributions to the fields of Genealogy and Education.���� ... Greenland pursued higher education at Los Angeles Junior College where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.
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NASA scientist, 37, lifts the lid on the WILDEST experiences she's had while traveling to ...

The Daily Mail 27 May 2023
Some of her more terrifying travel encounters include spotting polar bear prints in Greenland and falling into a glacial river in Nepal which 'took my breath away.' ... 'Through this jolting experience I learned first-hand about the hunting society in northern Greenland; how life operates here above the Arctic Circle.
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CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers

Phys Dot Org 27 Apr 2023
While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it's tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding ... In addition, ice being lost from glaciers is contributing more to sea-level rise than the ice being lost from either of the giant ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.
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The P-38F Lightning ‘Glacier Girl’ Was Buried Beneath The Ice For 50 Years

War History Online 25 Apr 2023
Unlike other aircraft, it was eventually recovered from where it fell 50 years prior, having been trapped in a vast sheet of ice in Greenland, earning it the nickname Glacier Girl ... It wasn’t until 1981 that the Greenland Expedition Society, founded by Pat Epps and Richard Taylor, decided to try and find the aircraft.
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More Evidence Shows Vikings Were In America Long Before Columbus

IFL Science 19 Apr 2023
Microscopic analysis of wood suggests that Norse people in Greenland were using timber that came from North America over 700 years ago ... Historical records have long suggested that medieval Norse Greenlandic society (985–1450 CE) imported timber from the Americas, but this is some of the first scientific evidence to back up the claim.
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How cascading crises may have chased Viking settlers from North America

The Hill 18 Apr 2023
Rising seas and increased flooding may have helped chase Viking colonists out of Greenland, a new study has found ... The study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science adds additional color to a stark — and strikingly modern — story of a society struggling for generations to adapt in the face of complex environmental change.
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Rising prices could push more supermarket shoppers to make unhealthy choices

Phys Dot Org 07 Mar 2023
Lead author on the study and CDU Professor in Marketing Steven Greenland said price was a key motivator of people purchasing unhealthy products, and brands were using this to their advantage ... Professor Greenland, from the Faculty of Arts & Society, Business & Accounting.
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The Arctic’s Iceless Upheaval

Dissident Voice 10 Feb 2023
... unpredictable conditions with extreme cycles that whiplash society, e.g. last year’s 2022-primer for 2023-24 (2) Amplifies Greenland’s disintegration, which is already showing signs of considerable weakness and frailty as 24 feet of sea level rise remains tenuously trapped in ice.
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Straying gulls

The Ada News 04 Feb 2023
The lesser black-backed gull, once a very rare stray to North America, has expanded greatly in numbers and distribution across the continent during the past 100 or so years, according to the National Audubon Society ... The bird recently began nesting in Greenland, but has yet to nest in North America where it is only a winter visitor.
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Climate tipping: West Antarctica ice sheet collapse may stabilize North Atlantic currents

Phys Dot Org 30 Jan 2023
The North Atlantic ocean current system known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC for short, can potentially tip in the event of a sudden melting (collapse) of the Greenland ice sheet. This is because the existence of the AMOC depends on the formation of dense, salt water in the surface areas around Greenland and Iceland.

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