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Greenland is the largest island on our planet. What do we know about it? First, it’s one of two Viking mistakes. Only savage bearded men could call a land full of greenery Iceland and the ice kingdom Greenland. Millenia-old glaciers cover the entire island but are melting slowly. This means …

A slow motion disaster is underway in Utah. Satellite images revealed the Great Salt Lake’s water levels have been depleting over the decades. John Blackstone explains why. #greatsaltlake #climatechange #news “CBS Weekend News” and “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell” deliver the latest news and original reporting, and goes beyond …

[ad_1] NASA satellites have provided more data than ever before on what has been happening to Antarctica and Greenland’s ice over the past 16 years with dire, if not entirely unexpected, findings. Both polar ice sheets are losing billions of tonnes of ice every year and adding to sea-level rise. The results revealed that although …

My guest today is the one and only sociologist of disaster Kathleen Tierney. Our wide-ranging discussion touches on the many ways that disasters reveal society as it is, and what it can be. Kathleen served as the director of the Natural Hazards Center from 2003 until 2016, and previously served …