Glacier Retreat

Rising sea levels: A tale of two cities

By Michael Hirst in Rotterdam and Kate McGeown in Maputo When people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked. To shed...

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Smaller glaciers more vulnerable to climate change: Study!

Updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 16:12 IST Tags: New Delhi: Smaller Himalayan glaciers are proving much more vulnerable to climate change than the area's larger glaciers, says a new report contradicting the recent...

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Climate Change Accelerating Beyond Expectations

Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new...

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Climate change worsens far faster than predicted

Climate change worsens far faster than predicted Philippine Daily Inquirer, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated—beyond some of...

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And the winner..

….of the Best Shoot Your Credibility In The Foot award is… TV3 News. They led off with the old shrinking glaciers story, and got it wrong. I decided to send news boss Mark Jennings a gentle reminder of what happens...

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Today's News: Europe in danger of volcanic melt says North East scientist

in association with The Sage Gateshead is Five! Europe in danger of volcanic melt says North East scientist Nov 23 2009 by Tony Henderson, The Journal FLOODS as powerful as the Amazon river could hit parts of Europe within...

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How the World Will Look If the Ice Caps Melt

What Happens to the US When the Glaciers Melt Now more than ever people are curious about how rising ocean levels will affect our cities. If or when the polar ice caps melt, what will be waterfront property? A 2005 computerized...

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NZ glaciers still shrinking - Niwa

New Zealand's glaciers are continuing to shrink, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) says.Niwa's annual end-of-summer survey of the snowline on key South Island glaciers showed they lost much more...

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INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

LADAKH, India, Nov 22 (IPS) - He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more...

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India challenges Western data linking climate change, Himalayan melt

NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics....

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