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Disappearing glaciers: Now you see them, now you dont
2013-05-24 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Momentous change doesn`t always leave visual cues. A 2008 Obama looks much the same as a 2012 Obama (minus a few gray hairs and Benghazi wrinkles). In some ways, climate change is similar; we can`t exactly see villainous clouds of CO2 strangling the sky. But when it comes to glaciers, climate change leaves marks that can be seen from space. Our friends at GlacierWorks hope to document those scars. Respected mountaineer and GlacierWorks Executive Director David Breashears retraced the steps of...
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Ecuador's disappearing glaciers
2013-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latinamerica Press.: Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades, and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years they will disappear completely. This is what points out the Project for Adaptation to the Impact of Receding Glaciers in the Tropical Andes, or PRAA, of the Andean Community. Climate change is causing dramatic impact to glaciers at the global level, affirmed the PRAA. Temperature variations in the Andes will reduce ice coverage and alter glacial runoff, eventually...
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