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Central Asian glaciers shrinking fast: study
2015-08-17 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Press: Central Asian glaciers have melted at four times the global average since the early 1960s, shedding 27 percent of their mass, according to a study released Monday. By 2050, warmer temperatures driven by climate change could wipe out half the remaining glacier ice in the Tien Shan mountain range, reported the study, published in Nature Geoscience. At stake is a critical source of water for people in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as well as a section of northwest China. "Glaciers...
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Worlds Glaciers Melting at Record Rate
2015-08-05 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The worlds glaciers are melting fastprobably faster than at any time in recorded history, according to new research. Measurements show several hundred glaciers are losing between half and one meter of thickness every yearat least twice the average loss for the 20th centuryand remote monitoring shows this rate of melting is far more widespread. The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more...
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Study Finds Glaciers Melting at Unprecidented Rates Around the Globe
2015-08-04 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Glaciers around the globe are melting at unprecedented rates, according to an analysis of data spanning 120 years by researchers at the University of Zurich. The team compared glacier data collected between 2001 and 2010 with measurements, aerial and satellite photos, written accounts, and historical depictions from the previous century. On average, glaciers are currently losing between 0.5 and 1 meter of ice thickness each year, the researchers found -- two to three times more than glaciers were...
Worlds Glaciers Melting Faster Than Ever
2015-08-04 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The current rate of glacier melt around the world is unprecedented in recorded history, new research by the World Glacier Monitoring Service demonstrates. Based at the University of Zurich, the World Glacier Monitoring Service compiles the results of worldwide glacier observations in annual calls-for-data from its national correspondents in more than 30 countries. The current database contains more than 5,000 measurements of glacier volume and mass changes since 1850 and more than 42,000 front...
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Glaciers melt faster than ever
2015-08-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Together with its National Correspondents in more than 30 countries, the international service just published a new comprehensive analysis of global glacier changes in the Journal of Glaciology. In this study, observations of the first decade of the 21st century (2001-2010) were compared to all available earlier data from in-situ,…
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