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For years, scientists have warned that climate change is taking its toll on Earth's ice, thawing not just the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica but mountain glaciers and ice caps from the Andes to the Alps. [More]
Read More... Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annuallyWed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:16 -0800
Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Read More... Global warming: CU-led study pinpoints Earth’s ice lossThu, 09 Feb 2012 00:11:15 -0800
New data to help project sea level rise By Summit Voice Earth’s glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding about 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The total mass ice loss from Greenland, Antarctica and all [...]
Read More... CU-Boulder study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annuallyWed, 08 Feb 2012 17:07:47 -0800
Changes in ice thickness (in centimeters per year) during 2003-2010 as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, averaged over each of the world's ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and Antarctica.
Read More... Warmer Arctic 'causes cold winters'Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:19:12 -0800
It may sound counterintuitive, but a scientific journal says that warmer Arctic summers may produce colder winters in the UK and elsewhere.
Read More... 'Corruption exists everywhere'Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:23:53 -0800
Corruption exists in every country, it is just a question of degree, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said at a meeting convened by Brand SA together with TIME magazine at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Read More... New study shows correlation between summer Arctic sea ice cover and winter weather in Central EuropeWed, 01 Feb 2012 08:02:32 -0800
Even if the current weather situation may seem to speak against it, the probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. Scientists of the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association have decrypted a mechanism in which a shrinking summertime sea ice cover ...
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