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Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change

Looking small for big answers in Greenland

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Scientists working in Greenland are looking for tiny clues to help fill in the big picture about the fate of the island’s giant ice pack. They’re using cutting edge technology to track minute changes that could help predict what a warmer future might hold for Greenland and the rest of the world.

Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to

In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone

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Icebergs in Sermilik Fjord, SE Greenland, viewed from a helicopter.

Here’s what climate change looks like from the edge of the Greenland icecap

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Ice scientists Ken Golden and Chris Polashenski drill a plastic tube into the Arctic ice cap north of Alaska as part of their research into melt ponds that form on the ice every spring. The ponds play a key role in the accellerated warming of the Arctic,

A scientist unlocks one of the mysteries of Arctic ice melt

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The World

In Palau, scientists hope they’ve found a coral reef to save all coral reefs

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Air France wreckage recovery

Development & Education

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with David Gallo of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He led the search team that discovered the wreckage from Air France Flight 447 last weekend. The commercial flight plummeted into the Atlantic in June 2009.

Rhode Island Oil Spill

Dr. Judith McDowell, a scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, fields questions from Steve Curwood on the recent spill of heating oil in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Rhode Island.

Exploring the Ocean’s Geology

Living on Earth host Steve Curwood talks with scientists at sea in the eastern Pacific Ocean. With the help of a submarine named Alvin and a robotic craft called Jason II, they’re exploring an underwater canyon called Pito Deep and hope to uncover some of the mysteries of the ocean floor.