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1. Scientist shoots back at global warming skeptics
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BY KEYA ACHARYA IPS NEWS AGENCY BANGALORE, INDIA — "It is a fact that global warming is happening. If the Arctic Sea ice is melting, how can the Himalayan glaciers not be melting?" glaciologist Syed ...

2. India’s artificial ‘Glacier Man’ aims to freeze extra water in winter for crops in spring
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers', to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers. Over 70 percent of water in Ladakh ...

3. Global warming: Four degrees of devastation
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... said. Even with a two-degree rise, most of the world's coral reefs will be lost, large portions of the ocean will become dead zones, mountain glaciers will largely vanish and many other ecosystems will ...

4. Climate change actually causing some U.S. glaciers to grow
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BY TOM BANSE VOA NEWS PORTLAND, OREGON — Glaciers cover 15 million square kilometers of the earth's surface, or a little less than the total area of the South American continent. Most of the world's ...

5. Lester Brown says ‘we can’t afford to let the planet get much hotter’
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

...  Already the massive Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at accelerating rates. If they melt completely, it would raise sea levels by 12 meters (39 feet). Mountain glaciers around the ...

6. Civilization can be saved from climate change and food shortages
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... emissions. Rising temperatures bring crop-shrinking heat waves, melting ice sheets, rising sea level, and shrinking mountain glaciers. With both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets melting at ...

7. Exploring the Finger Lakes region a powerful way to discover history
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... day finally came when a friend and I made the six-hour drive to that part of America where glaciers had carved out the finger-shaped basins about 12,000 years ago. Driving north on Rt. 90 along Cayuga ...

8. Himalayan glaciers will not disappear in 20-30 years
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... 20 to 30 years." The first part of this sentence is alright but the second part is totally false and misleading general public. How can one say that the snow and ice on those Himalayan and Hindu-Kush Glaciers ...

9. Rising sea levels threaten Eastern cities
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... ice sheet, according to a new study. About 81 percent of Greenland - the world's largest island, three times the size of Texas - is permanently under ice, including many glaciers that move very slowly ...

10. Cimate change: Snow cover turning to lakes in Himalayas
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... this week. "There's been a super-rapid decline in the glaciers of the region," said Charles Kennel, senior strategist at the University of California San Diego Sustainability Solutions Institute ...

11. Earth's Arctic freezer turning Into hothouse
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... ice sheet were to melt it would result in a six to seven-metre sea-level rise. Recent studies report thinning at the margins of the Greenland ice sheet, an increased fresh water discharge from outlet glaciers, ...