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Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation
2015-12-11 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, scientists said on Friday. The driving force behind the modest but discernible changes in the Earth's rotation measured by satellites and astronomical methods is a global sea level rise fueled by an influx of meltwater into the oceans from glaciers, the researchers said. "Because glaciers...
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Greenland glaciers found to be melting on fast track
2015-12-10 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Greenland's glaciers are retreating quickly, and a new study shows in historical terms just how quickly: over the past century, at least twice as fast as any other time in the past 9,500 years. The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades. To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier-fed...
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Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers Ignite Fresh Climate Change Concerns Report
2015-11-29 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Scientists have warned that shrinking Himalayan glaciers have initiated a pattern of potentially disastrous lake formations that could imperil settlements downstream in the event of an unanticipated overspill. New research has sparked fresh climate change concerns among scientists after a visiting team of researchers disclosed some extraordinary findings. The eastern and central Himalayan region, home to nine out of 10 world`s loftiest peaks including Mount Everest has been experiencing a rapid...
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Greenlands Rapidly Melting Glaciers Will Result in Rising Sea Levels for Decades to Come
2015-11-15 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A massive Greenland glacier that holds enough water to raise sea levels by half a meter [nearly 20 inches] is melting at speed, according to a new study. The Zachariae Isstrom in northeast Greenland has entered a phase of accelerated retreat, and is losing mass at the rate of 5 billion metric tons a year, according to U.S. scientists. They report in the journal Science that a succession of aerial surveys combined with multiple satellite observations has established that the base of the glacier...
Mapping entire glaciers
2015-10-12 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Geologists supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation have developed a new technique for mapping an entire glacier. They could confirm a theoretical model that describes how climate change affects erosion. Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a team led by Frédéric Herman of the University of Lausanne has mapped the Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand. The researchers have developed a new technique to study more precisely the relationships between global warming, glacier...
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