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The mystery of the disappearing Arctic ice

2013-02-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Times: Much of the worlds growing fascination with the Arctic centres on climate change and how it is opening up this vast icy wilderness. But figuring out the rate at which the Arctic is likely to thaw has proved to be extremely difficult. Scientists have known for decades that the Arctic was warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, and that the area covered by sea ice that thaws each summer, then refreezes as winter sets in, has been steadily shrinking. But the rate of this melting has sometimes...

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Ecuador's disappearing glaciers

2013-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Latinamerica Press.: Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades, and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years they will disappear completely. This is what points out the Project for Adaptation to the Impact of Receding Glaciers in the Tropical Andes, or PRAA, of the Andean Community. Climate change is causing dramatic impact to glaciers at the global level, affirmed the PRAA. Temperature variations in the Andes will reduce ice coverage and alter glacial runoff, eventually...

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