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Scientists warn Everest glaciers at risk of disappearing
2015-05-27 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Glaciers in the Everest region could shrink at least 70 percent or even disappear entirely by the end of the century as a result of climate change, scientists warned on Wednesday. Researchers in Nepal, the Netherlands and France studied weather patterns on the roof of the world and then created a model of conditions on Everest to determine the future impact of rising temperatures on its glaciers. "The worst-case scenario shows a 99 percent loss in glacial mass... but even if we start to slow...
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Antarctic glaciers thinning so fast, it's like a switch was flipped
2015-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A new study has recorded a sudden and rapid thinning of once-stable glaciers along the southern Antarctic Peninsula, demonstrating that significant changes in glacier mass can occur surprisingly quickly as ocean and air temperatures rise. The findings support what researchers have been seeing in other parts of Antarctica, with scientists warning last year that four key glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be on the verge of wholesale retreat with nothing to stop them. The new...
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Some Antarctic glaciers reached tipping point in 2009
2015-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: THE FIRST SIGNS Antarctic glaciers have reached some kind of melting 'tipping point' have been noticed by scientists from Europe. The group of eight scientists, led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University of Bristol used sophisticated satellite measurements of the Antarctic glaciers that empty into the Bellinghausen Sea, on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula which reaches up almost to South America. Glaciers are in effect, frozen rivers of snowpack, moving incrementally towards the ocean. These...
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Glaciers in Antarctic thought stable suddenly melting massive rate
2015-05-21 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A sudden and massive melting of glaciers in a part of the Antarctic that was thought to be relatively stable has been detected by satellites monitoring the polar ice sheet, scientists have said. Many glaciers in the Southern Antarctic Peninsula have become unstable since 2009, releasing vast amounts of ice into the sea equivalent to about 56bn tonnes of meltwater each year, the researchers said. Multiple glaciers along a stretch of coastline 750km long have suddenly and consistently started...
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Canada Could Lose 70 Percent of Glaciers by End of Century, Study Finds
2015-04-14 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: British Columbia and Alberta could lose 70 percent of their glaciers by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. Wetter coastal mountain regions in northwestern British Columbia are expected to lose about half of their glacial volume, the researchers found, but the Rocky Mountains, in the drier interior portion of Canada, could lose 90 percent of their glaciers. Soon our mountains could...
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