Glaciers in High Mountain Asia have been melting more quickly in recent years due to rising summer temperatures. Glacier melt prevails now even in areas where glaciers were previously growing, a team of researchers led by ...
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The towns of Vent and Obergurgl are nestled in the Ötz Valley in the Tyrol region of Austria, just north of the Italian border. They sit on either end of the mountain valley, framed by jagged peaks and lush meadows. They ...
Economics & Business
Jun 3, 2021
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The three largest glaciers in Greenland—which hold enough frozen water to lift global sea levels some 1.3 metres—could melt faster than even the worst-case warming predictions, research published Tuesday showed.
Environment
Nov 17, 2020
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Discovered in Val Aurina and now in the laboratory of Eurac Research's mummy experts, the remains will be studied in order to improve the conservation techniques of mummies around the world.
Archaeology
Sep 3, 2020
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Glaciers around the world are melting—and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2020
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The melting of glaciers and ice caps in places as diverse as the Himalayas and Andes mountain ranges, the Svalbard island group and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago has the dual effect of raising global sea levels and depleting ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2020
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A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, the presence of warm water at a vital point underneath a glacier in Antarctica—an alarming discovery that points to the cause behind the gradual melting of this ice ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2020
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Scientists may have solved a 25-year-old puzzle about the mysterious behaviour of certain glaciers in High Mountain Asia. In most of this region, they are shrinking; but in the northwest, they are growing.
Environment
Jan 14, 2020
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From the summit of Huascarán, the highest mountain in Earth's tropics, the valleys of the western Andes look placid and peaceful—calming, even. The signs of climate change—of the melting glaciers throughout the Andes, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2019
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Part of a massive glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc mountain range is close to collapse after accelerated melting in the late summer heat, officials at a nearby town warned Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 25, 2019
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