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Global Warming Shrinks Chinas Tibetan Glaciers by 15% in 30yrs
2014-05-21 22:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: China's very own glaciers off in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau have shrunk by 15 per cent in the last 30 years because of global warming. In a report, official state-run media Xinhua News said at least 8,000 square kilometres (3,089 square miles) of glaciers have thinned out in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in western China. This plateau covers the Tibetan Autonomous Region and highland parts of neighbouring provinces. From a total of 53,000 sq km, glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau are now only...
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Melting B.C. glaciers major issue American state-of-the-union report on climate change
2014-05-18 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The mountains of British Columbia cradle glaciers that have scored the landscape over millenia, shaping the rugged West Coast since long before it was the West Coast. But theyre in rapid retreat, and an American state-of-the-union report on climate change has singled out the rapid melt in British Columbia and Alaska as a major climate change issue. Most glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia are shrinking substantially, said the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released last week to much...
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Greenland Glaciers More Susceptible to Melt Than Thought
2014-05-18 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Greenland's glaciers are more vulnerable to melting by warm ocean waters than previously thought, a new study of the topography of the bedrock under the ice finds. This clearer picture of the underpinnings of the miles-thick ice sheet, along with other recent studies that suggest parts of Earth's polar regions are not as stable as once thought, could mean that current projections of future sea level rise are too low. On April 8, 2011, NASA's Operation IceBridge flew a mission to coastal areas...
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Global warming behind loss in area of glaciers in Himalayas
2014-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AMT: The second international conference on Cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: State of Knowledge organised by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Embassy of the United States in Kathmandu has launched a publication titled Status and Decadal Glacier Change from 1980s to 2010 in Nepal based on Satellite Data. The 100-page research report provides an analysis of four decades of glacier data from Nepal. In addition, ICIMOD...
West Antarctica glaciers on path toward major sea-level rise: Studies
2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Melting glaciers in West Antarctica are headed toward "irreversible" collapse, suggesting that rising sea levels this century may be worse than expected, and potentially catastrophic in the longer term, scientists warned yesterday. Two separate papers -- one in Science and the other from NASA and University of California, Irvine, researchers -- reported similar trends on the western swath of the ice sheet. A half-dozen unstable glaciers there have been accelerating their melt in recent decades,...
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