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Earthquakes Rattling Glaciers, Boosting Sea Level Rise
2015-01-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Glacier Hub: Talk of earthquakes likely calls to mind giant fissures opening up along the earths crust, the trembling of rock, buildings crumbling to their knees and, depending on your age and cast of mind, the love of Superman for Lois Lane. But it does not likely conjure up images of giant tongues of sliding ice or the splash of calving icebergs. And yet it should. Most earthquakes are generated by the friction produced by two bodies of rock rapidly sliding past each other on a fault in the Earths crust,...
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Iceland Rising as Climate Change Causes Glaciers to Melt, Researchers Say
2015-01-29 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The crust under Iceland is rebounding as climate change melts the island's great ice caps, researchers report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The current rapid rising, or uplift, of the Icelandic crust is a result of accelerated melting of the island's glaciers and coincides with a regional warming trend that began roughly 30 years ago, the scientists said. Some areas in south-central Iceland are moving upward as much as 1.4 inches per year a surprisingly high speed, the researchers...
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Mount Kenyas Vanishing Glaciers
2014-12-18 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In 1941, an Italian civil servant named Felice Benuzzi was captured by Allied forces and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in East Africa. The camp faced Mount Kenya, 17,000 feet high, and Benuzzi found himself staring longingly at that larger, snow-blanketed world from the smallness of his own. Eventually he couldnt help himself; he decided to climb the mountain. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage Indian children carrying coal to a crushing machine in the state of Meghalaya. India...
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Peru's melting glaciers a deadly threat as temperatures rise
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: High in the Peruvian Andes, the glacier-fed lake Laguna 513 brims with meltwater atop a populated valley in a region prone to earthquakes. Scientists warn that if a giant chunk of ice from the Hualcan glacier breaks off it could trigger a tsunami-like wave in Laguna 513 and send a lethal torrent of water cascading down the valley. It has happened before in the Andean nation. In 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook ice blocks into highland lakes and unleashed an avalanche that buried the town...
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Peru glaciers 'melting at alarming rate'
2014-12-06 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Experts have warned that Peru's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening the survival of an estimated 30 million people. The water from the glaciers is used to generate hydro power and for irrigation. Scientists say the glaciers have lost more than one-fifth of their mass in just three decades due to global warming. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.
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