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A new study produced by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has found that the Greenland Ice Sheet is softening up faster than expected. The study shows that surface melt water absorbs heat and sunlight then transfers that energy into the heart of Greenland’s ice sheets resulting in sagging and more rapid movement, not just at ice sheet edges, but deep within interior glaciers.

Over the past decade, researchers found that the speed of ice motion at the edge of Greenland’s vast ice sheets had increased resulting in larger flows into the ocean. Now, ice motion deep within Greenland’s interior is also found to have sped up. The study compared the rates of ice flow during 2000 to 2001 with a period from 2005 to 2008. The results were alarming:

“Through satellite observations, we determined that an inland region of the Sermeq Avannarleq Glacier, 40 to 60…

I was wandering around international news when I spotted this article about girls and education.

Malala Yousafzai gave an amazing speech at UN about universal education. She asked the UN “to fund new teachers, schools, books and recommit to getting every girl and boy in school by December 2015”. She focused her attention mostly on the gender gap related to the access to education. You can learn more about Malala and help her in her quest for universal education in here.

Despite being one of the Millennium Developmental Goals, universal primary education is far from being a reality, especially when it comes to girls (lack of gender equality – another thing the MDGs address…). At the same time that we have kids throwing a tantrum because they don’t want to go to school, we have kids that walk kilometers just to go to class. A lot of children don’t…