News tagged with mountain glaciers
No ice loss seen in major Himalayan glaciers: scientists
One of the world's biggest glacier regions has so far resisted global warming that has ravaged mountain ice elsewhere, scientists reported on Sunday.
Apr 15, 2012 |
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Global sea level likely to rise as much as 70 feet for future generations
Even if humankind manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F), as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends, future generations will have to deal with sea levels 12 to 22 meters (40 to 70 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Rapid retreat of Chile glacier captured in images
(AP) -- Researchers in Chile released a series of time-lapse photos Wednesday showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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Austrian glaciers shrink dramatically
Austria's glaciers shrank dramatically this summer, the most since a record hot period in 2003, principally because of low amounts of snow the preceding winter, scientists said.
Oct 02, 2011 |
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Fold mountains slip on soft areas
The Zagros Mountains are well researched from a geological perspective. However, scientists at the ETH Zurich have now used computer simulations to demonstrate for the first time how it came about that mainly ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2011 |
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New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Vatican science panel calls attention to the threat of glacial melt
A panel of some of the world's leading climate and glacier scientists co-chaired by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researcher issued a report today commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical ...
May 06, 2011 |
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Melting ice on Arctic islands a major player in sea level rise
Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Polar ice adding more to rising seas: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Scientists find that debris on certain Himalayan glaciers may prevent melting
A new scientific study shows that debris coverage -- pebbles, rocks, and debris from surrounding mountains -- may be a missing link in the understanding of the decline of glaciers. Debris is distinct from ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Water crisis in Andes is challenge for U.S. security establishment, Peru
The Medill School of Journalism graduate student team yesterday released its latest story in its series on the national security implications of climate change. Heather Somerville of Medill National Security Reporting Project ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Mountain glacier melt to contribute 12 centimeters to world sea-level increases by 2100
Melt off from small mountain glaciers and ice caps will contribute about 12 centimetres to world sea-level increases by 2100, according to UBC research published this week in Nature Geoscience.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2011 |
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High nitrate concentrations in U.S. Rockies' high elevation lakes caused by melting glaciers
Melting glaciers in the American West are releasing chemicals that cause ecosystem changes in alpine lakes, including large quantities of nitrogen that reduces biodiversity, according to an international research team led ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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500 million year old fossils discovered on new site
During an expedition into the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 2008, a Canadian-led team including Swedish researchers from Uppsala University found a new site with exceptionally preserved fossils. The site and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Glaciers help high-latitude mountains grow taller
Glaciers can help actively growing mountains become higher by protecting them from erosion, according to a University of Arizona-led research team.
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Sep 15, 2010 |
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