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Peter Clark: Melting Ice, Rising Seas, and Climate Change
Changes in Land Water Storage and Melting Ice Sheets Drive Polar Motion
Polar Bear Metabolism Is Less Resilient to Summer Food Shortages Than Expected
The iconic Arctic animals can’t reduce their energy output enough to compensate when summer ice melt diminishes their food supply, new data suggest.
Researchers Seek Sustainable Ways to Improve Conditions for the World’s Poor
The development community knows that it can’t ignore climate effects and sustainability while trying to improve the lives of the poor, but it needs interdisciplinary scientific input on how to do it.
<em>Science</em>: Sea Level Rise Could Be Bad, But Not as Bad as Some Models Suggest

A decade-long record of nearly all of Greenland’s major glaciers suggests that Earth’s sea levels may not rise as dramatically over the next century as some studies have predicted as ice from those glaciers melts or calves off into the sea.