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Colombias glaciers could disappear in 30 years - report
2013-03-05 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Colombia's glaciers are melting so fast that the country has lost more than half of its glacier mass over the past three decades due to rising temperatures linked to climate change, according to a report by the Colombian Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM). "In the last 30 years, we have lost 57 percent of our glacier mass due to climate change... If current trends continue it is estimated that in about 30 years there will be no snow-capped mountains in the country,"...
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Glaciers in the Himalayas Are RetreatingBut Why?
2013-03-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: One of the Climate News Network's editors, Kieran Cooke, was among a group of journalists recently investigating the impact of climate change in Nepal and the Himalayas. In the last of his reports from the region he describes the difficulties of establishing why so many of Nepal's glaciers appear to be shrinking. Mohan Bdr. Chand is at the sharp end of glacier research. A climate researcher at Kathmandu University, Chand is carrying out vital field work, looking at high mountain glaciers as indicators...
Massive melting of Andes glaciers
2013-01-23 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Glaciers in the tropical Andes have shrunk by an average of 30-50% since the 1970s, according to a study. The glaciers, which provide fresh water for tens of millions in South America, are retreating at their fastest rate in the past 300 years. The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers and blamed the melting on an average temperature rise of 0.7C from 1950-1994. Details appear in the academic journal Cryosphere. The authors report that glaciers are retreating everywhere...
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Andean glaciers melting at 'unprecedented' rates
2013-01-23 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50% since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal Cryosphere. Andean glaciers, a vital source of fresh water for tens of millions of South Americans, are retreating at their fastest rates in more than 300 years, according to the most comprehensive review of Andean ice loss so far. The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers in South...
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Climate change melting glaciers in the Andes
2013-01-22 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Glaciers are melting faster than ever in the tropical Andes, warns a new study published in The Cryosphere, which puts the blame for vanishing glaciers squarely on climate change. The study - the most comprehensive to date - found that since the 1970s glacier melt in the region has been speeding up, threatening freshwater supplies in Peru and Bolivia. "The ongoing recession of Andean glaciers will become increasingly problematic for regions depending on water resources supplied by glacierised...
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