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Endangered glaciers: Alpine ice begins Antarctic voyage
2016-09-05 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: More than 400 pieces of Alpine ice have been moved to a giant freezer - a first step in their journey to Antarctica. The seemingly strange plan to send ice to the coldest place on Earth is part of a scientific mission to "rescue" some of the world's most endangered glacial ice. Bubbles in old, deep glacial ice are frozen records of our past atmosphere. Scientists say their purpose-built Antarctic ice bunker will keep these safe for future research. "What we know for sure is that the ice...
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As Glaciers Melt in Alaska, Landslides Follow
2016-07-06 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An enormous landslide that spread rocky debris more than six miles across a glacier in southeastern Alaska last week was not the first to occur in the area, and certainly will not be the last. The slide, first noticed by Paul Swanstrom, a sightseeing pilot, on June 28, occurred when part of a mountain gave way near Lamplugh Glacier, in Glacier Bay National Park, about 100 miles northwest of Juneau. Photographs taken by Mr. Swanstrom several hours after the slide showed a dark mass spread over...
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Why heat, droughts and dwindling glaciers threaten Albertas oil sands
2016-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global News: But three interconnected threats may make the river`s flow far smaller in the future than it is today: Drought The Athabasca River`s flow has been measured since the early 1950s and water allocation decisions are based on that data, says University of Regina geography professor David Sauchyn. But recent research shows that recent decades have been a wet period. The region`s deeper history shows long, severe droughts. Sauchyn studied rings on trees in the Athabasca`s headwaters, in Jasper...
Arctic's pink snow pushing ice glaciers towards faster melting: Research
2016-06-26 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
INewsToday: Arctic's pink snow pushing ice glaciers towards faster melting: Research But this month, the Arctic landscape looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, with landscapes of pink snow. This was speculated to be a result of meteoric iron deposits, according to a report from the London Times that accompanied Ross' findings. The snow changing a darker color could hasten the melting process, which could result in more algae growth and further accelerate the process. Watermelon snow has been spotted...
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Arctic?s red algae speeding up global warming, causing glaciers to melt fast
2016-06-23 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IB Times: A study has revealed that fields of red-coloured algae are forming on worlds glaciers and it is accelerating global warming. Previously, the experts thought the red colour of the snow was caused by some chemical spill or baby seal clubbing. However, it is just algae, and scientists are completely baffled by this weird phenomenon. Moreover, the algae-formation is causing the glaciers to melt fast. The study, published in the science journal Nature Communications, revealed that its the colour...