News tagged with mount kilimanjaro
Dream is over for Virgin Galactic space tourist
Venture capitalist Alan Walton has trekked to the North Pole, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and skydived over Mount Everest. A hop into space to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness would have been the ultimate ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Indonesian ice field may be gone in a few years, core may contain secrets of Pacific El Nino events
Glaciologists who drilled through an ice cap perched precariously on the edge of a 16,000-foot-high Indonesian mountain ridge say that the ice field could vanish within in the next few years, another victim ...
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost
The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The snows of Mount Washington
"Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained wh ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Researchers provide fascinating insights into elephant behavior, conservation issues
Last year, Kenya lost 278 elephants to poachers, as compared to 177 in 2010. On the continent of Africa as whole, elephants have declined from an estimated 700,000 in 1990 to 360,000 today due to the demands ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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La Ninas distant effects in East Africa
For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Niño Southern Oscillation) known as El Niño/La Niña. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Climate scientist warns world of widespread suffering if further climate change is not forestalled
One of the world's foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don't moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Horror disease hits Uganda
(AP) -- A disease whose progression and symptoms seem straight out of a horror movie but which can be treated has killed at least 20 Ugandans and sickened more than 20,000 in just two months.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 22, 2010 |
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NASA astronaut checks in to Foursquare from space
A NASA astronaut on Friday used the popular location-sharing service Foursquare to "check in" from space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 22, 2010 |
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'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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Ancient drought and rapid cooling drastically altered climate
Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Evolution tied to Earth movement
Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground movements formed ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2007 |
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