News tagged with glaciers
Related topics: climate change , sea level rise , ice , climate , sea level
Photos 'show Himalayan glaciers receding'
When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed eternal.
Jul 16, 2010 |
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Researchers witness overnight breakup, retreat of Greenland glacier
NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7, as shown in the image above. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2010 |
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US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia's dying glacier
The only glacier in the western Pacific could disappear in less than five years, taking with it vital clues about the earth's changing climate, a US scientist said Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 02, 2010 |
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Indonesia's last glacier will melt within years
(AP) -- Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Researcher finds 10,000 year-old hunting weapon in melting ice patch (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee's recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Peru inventor 'whitewashes' peaks to slow glacier melt
In a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes, men in paint-daubed boilersuits diligently coat a mountain summit with whitewash in an experimental bid to recuperate the country's melting glaciers.
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Studies confirm presence, severity of pollution in national parks
Toxic contamination from pesticides, the burning of fossil fuels, agriculture, industrial operations and other sources are a continuing concern in national parks of the West, two new studies confirm.
Jun 23, 2010 |
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New research sheds light on Antarctica's melting Pine Island Glacier
New results from an investigation into Antarctica's potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Lamont-Doherty Earth ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2010 |
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Oceanographers call for more ocean observing in Antarctica
Rutgers' Oscar Schofield and five colleagues from other institutions have published in Science, calling for expanded ocean-observing in the Antarctic, particularly in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, or WAP.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Do Atlantic currents affect Alpine glacier melting?
Natural climate fluctuations such as variations in the Atlantic currents probably influenced glacier retreat in the Alps in the last century more than we first thought: they correlate with times of particularly ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Study: Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages
(AP) -- Nearly 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer food shortages in the coming decades as glaciers shrink and the water sources for crops dry up, a study said Thursday.
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Earth from Space: A smoke-free Iceland
(PhysOrg.com) -- This Envisat image features a smoke-free Iceland. Although the island has received a lot of attention in the past months for its volcanic activity, it is also home to numerous glaciers, lakes, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 04, 2010 |
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Researchers Discover Secret of Success For Mysterious Hybridized Caribbean Bats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime in the last 30,000 years or so, two separate bat species colonized the Caribbean and converged on islands in the southern Lesser Antilles. One came from Mexico while the other traveled from northern ...
May 31, 2010 |
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Greenland rapidly rising as ice melt continues
Greenland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Canada. It has stunning fjords on its rocky coast formed by moving glaciers, and a dense icecap up to 2 km thick that covers much of the island--pressing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2010 |
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UN science chief defends work, welcomes review
(AP) -- The head of the U.N. scientific body on climate change defended Friday the work of the thousands of scientists who contribute to its reports, even as he welcomed a review of procedures that produced ...
May 14, 2010 |
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