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Africa’s Disappearing Glaciers Signal ‘Irreversible’ Threat to Earth System: Report
Africa’s Disappearing Glaciers Signal ‘Irreversible’ Threat to Earth System: Report The authors of a U.N. report urge greater investment in climate adaptation and weather services on the continent. A new United Nations-backed report reveals the extent of Africa’s “disproportionate vulnerability” to the climate emergency, with the continent’s three glaciers expected to disappear entirely in the […]
How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature
How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature As BC’s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series. Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier has been home to First Nations for […]
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’
Greenland’s largest glaciers nearing rates of melt expected in ‘worst-case scenario’ Greenland’s three biggest glaciers added the equivalent of around 8mm to global sea levels from 1880 to 2012, study says Photo of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland’s largest glaciers (Shfaqat Abbas Khan, DTU Space Denmark) Greenland’s largest glaciers are currently melting at levels close to what […]
Himalayan glaciers that supply water to a billion people are melting fast
Himalayan glaciers that supply water to a billion people are melting fast Preface. The Himalayan glaciers that supply water to a billion people are melting fast, already 30% has been lost since 1975. Adding to the crisis are the 400 dams under construction or planned for Himalayan rivers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan to […]
Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland
Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland Photograph Source: Ralf Roletschek – GFDL 1.2 Greenland is one of the biggest targets for global warming, in part, because it’s so big it’s hard to miss. And sure enough, only recently crazy halting weather with inordinate hot temperature hit Greenland bull’s-eye, dead-on with one helluva meltdown. That’s bad news for pretty […]
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions. That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the […]
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice
In Northern Canada Peaks, Scientists Are Tracking Impact of Vanishing Ice In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock […]
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, Two Towns Face the Fallout
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, Two Towns Face the Fallout Recently, Buddhists at a nunnery in Zanskar Valley, a 30-mile-long alley of gray stone high in the Himalayas of northwest India, took the unprecedented step of planting an apricot tree. The valley is known as a “cold desert,” because just half an inch of rain falls a […]
