News tagged with benchmark glaciers
'Benchmark glaciers' shrinking at faster rate, study finds
Climate change is shrinking three of the nation's most studied glaciers at an accelerated rate, and government scientists say that finding bolsters global concerns about rising sea levels and the availability of fresh drinking ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Glacier alarm 'regrettable error': UN climate head
The head of the UN's climate science panel said Saturday a doomsday prediction about the fate of Himalayan glaciers was "a regrettable error" but that he would not resign over the blunder.
Jan 23, 2010 |
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Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study
A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.
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Apr 15, 2009 |
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Foretelling a major meltdown: Rare mineral might portend return to hothouse climate of old
By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we're probably in for over ...
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia
When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A glacier's life
EPFL researchers have developed a numerical model that can re-create the state of Switzerland's Rhône Glacier as it was in 1874 and predict its evolution until the year 2100. This is the longest period of time ever modeled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Scientists search for answers from the carbon in the clouds
An aerosol mass spectrometer developed by chemists from Aerodyne Research Inc. and Boston College is giving scientists who study airborne particles the technology they need to examine the life cycles of atmospheric ...
Jul 25, 2008 |
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New Tibetan Ice Cores Missing A-Bomb Blast Markers; Suggest Himalayan Ice Fields Haven't Grown In Last 50 Years
Ice cores drilled last year from the summit of a Himalayan ice field lack the distinctive radioactive signals that mark virtually every other ice core retrieved worldwide.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Study: Glaciers And Ice Caps To Dominate Sea-Level Rise Through 21st Century
Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. ...
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Jul 19, 2007 |
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