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World's melting glaciers making large contribution to sea rise
2013-05-16 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas....
The effect of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers
2013-05-13 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SPX: While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg production has eluded researchers for many years. Published in Nature this week, a new study presents a sophisticated computer model that provides a fresh insight into the impact of climate change on the production of icebergs by Greenland glaciers, and reveals that the shape of the ground beneath the ice has a strong effect on its movement....
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Land o' lakes: Melting glaciers transform Alpine landscape
2013-04-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Climate change is dramatically altering the Swiss Alps, where hundreds of bodies of water are being created by melting glaciers. Though the lakes can attract tourists and even generate electricity, local residents also fear catastrophic tidal waves. In the 1990s, the first cracks began to appear in the mighty tongue of the Trift Glacier in the central Swiss canton of Bern. In 2002, the peak of the ice mass burst into thousands of pieces. Since it lay in a hollow, the water swelled into a lake...
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Is Ice Loss by Glaciers Abnormal?
2013-04-17 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise. New ice core research suggests that, while the changes are dramatic, they cannot be attributed with confidence to human-caused global warming, said Eric Steig, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences. Previous work by Steig has shown that rapid thinning of Antarctic...
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Andes' tropical glaciers 'going fast'
2013-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: The glaciers of the tropical Andes have shrunk by between 30 and 50 percent in 30 years and many will soon disappear altogether, cutting off the summer water supply for millions of people, according to scientists studying the region's climate. Their findings are particularly significant because glaciers in the tropics 99 percent of which are in the Andes are regarded as among the most sensitive indicators of climate change on the planet, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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