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Canada’s Arctic ice Caps Melting Rapidly Since 2005, According to Documents

Glacier monitoring conducted by the federal government in Canada’s High Arctic shows the shrinking of ice caps that started in the late 1980s “has accelerated rapidly since 2005” and is part of a...

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Scientists: Antarctic Ice Melt ‘Top Threat’

The researchers focused on the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, which has been thinning at an increasingly rapid pace for about the past 20 years, as the waters beneath get warmer along with the rest...

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The Massive, Melting Pine Island Glacier Is Just Getting Started

Scientists have watched with awe the deterioration of the Pine Island Glacier, one of the major outlets of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the fastest moving glacier on the continent. Last summer, the...

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Climate Politics: a Melting Glacier

The great floods across parts of southern England may have abated, but questions over their linkage to climate change are among the most powerful residues. For scientists, experts and citizens the...

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Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap Is Melting, Thanks To Climate Change

For decades now scientists have observed rapid melting in the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. The glacier ebbs and flows each year, as do all glaciers, but each year it also shrinks a little bit more than...

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Arctic Melt Speeding Up

Climate News Network: Ice in the Arctic continues to retreat. The season without ice is getting longer by an average of five days every 10 years, according to a new study in Geophysical Research...

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Glaciers in Western Canada Still Receding Despite Cold, Snow

Despite cold and snowy winters for the past few years, scientists say it hasn’t helped to slow the retreat of the glaciers in Western Canada. Experts from Natural Resources Canada and several...

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Climate Change Accelerates Greenland Ice Loss

The Greenland ice sheet, and particularly glaciers in the southeast and northwest, has been a significant contributor to global sea-level rise over the past 20 years. However, the northeast ice stream,...

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Climate Change Causing Faster Glacier Melting

Ice glaciers in West Antarctica are melting much faster than they were 40 years ago, according to a new study. Researchers have found that the amount of ice draining from the large glaciers increased...

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200000 Glaciers Mapped To Estimate Sea Level Rise

An international team led by glaciologists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Trent University in Ontario, Canada has completed the first mapping of virtually all of the world’s glaciers —...

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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt Won’t Stop Anytime

Watching the West Antarctic ice sheet disappear won’t be something worth a month-long trip, but perhaps take a couple hundred years. Even watching the annual ice breakup is a few weeks, but the problem...

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Global Warming Melting Himalayan Glaciers

This is going to be immensely damning report about the impacts of the climate change in this part of the world. Global warming is melting Himalayan glaciers faster than anyone thought. A latest study...

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China Glaciers Shrink 15% in Warming: Xinhua

AFP: China’s glaciers have shrunk by thousands of square kilometres over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, state-run media reported on Wednesday. The Qinghai-Tibet plateau in western...

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Glaciers In Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Shrinking Due To Global Warming

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, home to several Himalayan rivers including the Brahamaputra, have shrunk 15% due to global warming, Chinese researchers said. Glaciers have shrunk from 53,000 to...

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Greenland Ice May Melt Even Faster

Climate News Network: Just days after US researchers identified geophysical reasons why West Antarctica’s glaciers are increasingly vulnerable to global warming, a partner team has pinpointed a related...

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Glacier Feeding Indus Tributary Melting Fast, JNU Study Says

Times News Network:  This could be worrisome for Himalayan glaciers. A team from Jawaharlal Nehru University has found significantly accelerated ice melting on Chhota Shigri glacier in Lahaul and Spiti...

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On Shrinking Glaciers

The valley is gifted by nature with large reservoirs of water in the shape of glaciers.  We Humans have not been able to tap our resources to its hilt. Instead due to pollutants in the atmosphere and...

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Hidden Volcanoes Melt Antarctic Glaciers from Below

Antarctica is a land of ice. But dive below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and you’ll find fire as well, in the form of subglacial volcanoes. Now, a new study finds that these subglacial volcanoes and...

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Underworld Threat to Melting Icecap

Climate News Network: Researchers in the US have identified a new reason for the acceleration in the melting of Greenland’s icecap − the ice underneath, as it melts and then refreezes, appears to speed...

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Drones Zero In On Himalayan Glaciers

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finding a role in the study of glaciers in the rugged and remote Himalayas. Using UAVs to study the Lirung glacier in Nepal’s Langtang region, scientists...

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Icebergs Strip Away Rich Antarctic Habitat

A once-rich habitat in the Antarctic has become an impoverished zone as icebergs, increasingly breaking free from the surrounding sea ice because of global warming, scour the shallow-water rocks and...

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Dark Snow: From the Arctic to the Himalayas, the Phenomenon That is...

The Guardian: When American geologist Ulyana Horodyskyj set up a mini weather station at 5,800m on Mount Himlung, on the Nepal-Tibet border, she looked east towards Everest and was shocked. The world’s...

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Efforts on to Monitor Himalayan Glaciers

IANS: Efforts are underway for the regular monitoring of the dynamics and climate studies of Himalayan glaciers, minister of state for science and technology Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. “Efforts...

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New Zealand’s ‘Dramatic’ Ice Loss Could Lead to Severe Decline of Glaciers

The Guardian: New Zealand’s vast Southern Alps mountain range has lost a third of its permanent snow and ice over the past four decades, diminishing some of the country’s most spectacular glaciers, new...

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Human Factor Speeds up Glacial Melting

Climate News Network: The impact of human activity is melting the glaciers in the world’s mountain regions, and is doing so at an accelerating rate. Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University...

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World’s Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded

The Huffington Post: Greenland and Antarctica are home to the two largest ice sheets in the world, and a new report released Wednesday says that they are contributing to sea level rise twice as much as...

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‘Incredible’ Rate of Polar Ice Loss Alarms Scientists

The Guardian: The planet’s two largest ice sheets – in Greenland and Antarctica – are now being depleted at an astonishing rate of 120 cubic miles each year. That is the discovery made by scientists...

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Satellite Mapping Shows Ice Caps’ Faster Melt Rate

Climate News Network: German researchers have established the height of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps with greater precision than ever before. And the new maps they have produced show that the...

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Southern Alps Lose a Third of Their Ice

A third of the permanent snow and ice on New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to research based on aerial surveys by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.The...

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Himalayan Glaciers Losing Ice by Thinning

The Hindu: The response of the Himalayan glaciers to climate change is very puzzling in many ways. Despite being subjected to similar climate changes, some of these glaciers appear to be stagnant as...

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Ice Melt Dilutes Arctic Sea’s CO2 Clean-up Role

Climate News Network: The Arctic ice cap has just passed its summer minimum – and it’s the sixth lowest measure of sea ice recorded since 1978, according to scientists at the US space agency NASA. For...

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Why Greenland is Likely to Melt More Quickly

Climate News Network: Climate scientists have thought a little more deeply about the state of the Greenland ice sheet and their conclusions are ominous. They think that the northern hemisphere’s...

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Researchers Travel to Greenland to Study Glacial Shifts

Traveling to the icy regions of Greenland, UT researchers, led by Lauren Andrews, a geological sciences graduate student, looked at the country’s glaciers to see how they impact glacial shifts in icy...

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Himalayan Glaciers In Karakoram Adding Bulk, Not Losing Ice, Says Study

Reuters: Once again there is damning news against the Inter­governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this time from a study of glaciers in the Karakoram region of the Himalayas. It finds that the...

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As Glaciers Melt, A Lake in Nepal Fills Up

Glaciers on Nepal’s Imja Tse (Island Peak) in the Himalayas have melted at an average rate of almost 10 meters per year over the past several decades, during which time residents of Imja Tse Valley...

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Melting Glaciers, Changing Climate

At dawn, Mohd Soheb begins an arduous trek to the high camp at Chhota Shigri glacier in the Pir Panjal range in Spiti valley, Himachal Pradesh. From the PWD guesthouse at Chota Dara, he walks down to...

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Glacial Retreat Will Continue but Can be Checked: Scientist

The glaciers in the Himalayas will continue to retreat for another 40-50 years and if this phenomenon is not checked, temperature will rise by at least four degrees Celsius by the end of this century....

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The “Have-a-Mind-of-Their-Own” Glaciers of Asia’s Karakoram

Using new remote sensing methods to generate an updated glacier inventory for the Karakoram region of Asia – which is part of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya mountain range located between the...

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Worldwide Retreat of Glaciers Confirmed in Unprecedented Detail

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. A new book from the international GLIMS...

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The Karakoram Glacier’s Secret to “Eternal Youth”

You might call it the ultimate cold case. In a time when glaciers are quite literally melting before our very eyes, one glacier in the Himalayas has been doing quite the opposite. “It’s been a source...

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Study of Melting Glaciers Worries Meteorologists

Meteorologists worried at the depletion of glaciers in Pakistan studied six glaciers in the Karakorum Range recently, and the results have made them worry even more. “All of them were found melting at...

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Glacial Retreat at the source of the Ganges

When it came, the collapse of the head of the Gomurkh glacier was sudden, loud and very frightening. I say that it was frightening not because I am a particularly timid soul, but because not two...

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Warmer Seas Could Cause Faster Melting of Antarctic ice Leading to Rising Sea...

Warming water under Antarctica’s ice shelves risks ice melting that could lead to a “worrying” rise in global sea levels, research has shown. Loss of the Antarctic ice shelves, which extend from the...

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Deep Concern Over Invisible Threat to Antarctic Glaciers

The Antarctic ice shelf is under threat from a silent, invisible agency – and the rate of melting of glaciers has trebled in the last two decades. The ocean waters of the deep circumpolar current that...

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China’s Glaciers Shrink by a Fifth Since the 1950s

China’s glaciers have retreated by 18 per cent over the past half century, a comprehensive survey has found, as some experts warn of “chain effects” that could have an impact on water supplies in the...

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China Confirms its Southern Glaciers are Disappearing

Glaciers in China that are a critical source of water for drinking and irrigation in India are receding fast, according to a new comprehensive inventory. In the short term, retreating glaciers may...

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Tibet’s Glaciers at Their Warmest

(Xinhuanet) — Recent decades have likely been the warmest and wettest on record in the Tibetan Plateau, known as the ‘Third Pole’ for its ice fields. A report on the region’s ecosystem published today...

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New Zealand’s Glaciers Melting Due to Climate Change

Climate change has affected New Zealand’s glaciers as tourists can no longer go to the ice on foot because of glacial retreat. Fox Glacier and the Franz Josef Glacier are now only accessible via...

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Climate: Melting Glaciers Adding Dissolved Carbon to World’s Oceans

As if rising sea levels aren’t enough to worry about, U.S. Geological Survey scientists say melting glaciers may also adding significant amounts of carbon to the oceans, where it’s readily available to...

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Increased Carbon Spill From Glaciers Sets New Puzzle

Researchers in the US have calculated that, thanks to climate change, melting glaciers will have spilled an extra 15 million tonnes of organic carbon into the seas by 2050. The consequences for the...

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