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1. Scientist shoots back at global warming skeptics
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

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. Latin American looking north on the issue of greenhouse gas emissions
(World/International)

... the effects of the phenomenon. Droughts, floods, glacier melt, rising temperatures, new agricultural pests and diseases are already hitting the region, as detailed in the First Regional Report on Climate ...

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

BY KEYA ACHARYA IPS NEWS AGENCY LADAKH, INDIA — 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 ...

4. Global warming: Four degrees of devastation
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 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 ...

5. Climate change actually causing some U.S. glaciers to grow
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Civilization can be saved from climate change and food shortages
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 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 ...

8. Exploring the Finger Lakes region a powerful way to discover history
(Life/Style)

... 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 ...

9. Study: Greenhouse gas emissions change Arctic temperatures after 2,000 years of cooling
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose. The study in the journal Science documents 2,000 years of geological history using tree rings, glacier ice and lake ...

10. Himalayan glaciers will not disappear in 20-30 years
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. Take a walk on the wild side
(Life/Style)

... carved from outflows from Lake Passaic. The ancient lake was created by melt water from the Wisconsin glacier that pushed south into New Jersey about 18,000 years ago. At its maximum, the lake was 30 miles ...

14. 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, ...

15. Bob Williams
('Uncategorised Content')

... activity from skiing Austria's treacherous Hahnenkam race course to summer training with the Italian National Ski Team on an alpine glacier. He holds membership in the Eastern Ski Writers Association, ...