Tag: Glaciers - Page 2
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Greenland Rising as Ice Melts
Scientists are reporting that Greenland is rising as the large weight of ice pressing down on land is melting. And the country's elevation gains are speeding up. Glacial melt on Greenland is being watched very carefully
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Bye Bye Glaciers: 2 More Gone From Glacier National Park
We all know warmer temperatures have led to shrinking
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Yes Virginia, the Glaciers are Melting
The World Glacier Monitoring Service has jumped into the controversy about whether the glaciers are melting. And their answer is an emphatic yes.
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Glaciers Feed the Ocean's Food Webs
Dissolved
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Black Carbon Identified as a Key Element in Himalayan Glacier Melting
After the Arctic and Antarctica, the snow and glaciers of the Himalayas are the largest store of water on the planet. When the ice of this "Third Pole" melts each spring, it supplies the largest rivers in
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Bridge to Somewhere: DaVinci's Design on Ice
A 52-foot bridge made of live ice is on display in front of the Danish Parliament on the Christiansborg Slotsplads. The display for COP15 "opened" yesterday and stays up until in melts. It's part of the
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Over a Hundred Massive Icebergs Heading Towards New Zealand (Photos)
Ships passing through the southern Pacific Ocean have been issued a warming: beware of hundreds of massive icebergs. Seems that they've broken off of an Antarctic ice floe and are now drifting towards New Zealand. Pics after the
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Melting German Glacier Gets Sunscreen, Again
A couple weeks ago, Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, got dressed in a sun shield to protect its melting glacier during summer. The mountain's
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Ganges Rising: Salinization Threatens Holy River
Photo: Boy diving into Ganges (DCL/Ami Vitale) The Ganges is taking a beating. Considered one of India’s holiest rivers, as of late its health has been threatened by chemical pollution, an overload of raw sewage and the possibility that its Himalayan
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Watch the Impact of Global Warming: "Tibetan Plateau in Peril"
For decades, and especially in the past year, Tibet has come to be associated with China's fragile political condition. But it's also the site of one of China's and the world's biggest environmental crises. When I visited Everest in October I saw
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Argentinean Environmental Secretary Dismissed from Office
Romina Picolotti, Argentina's Environmental Secretary for the last 28 months, was asked to resign from office by president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, several media outlets announced last night.
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How to Go Green: Cocktails
There is something about sipping on a cocktail surrounded by friends that makes a party feel special. It doesn't matter what the time of year, whether you are getting into the holiday spirit, or sitting on a dock by a lake.
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Everest and Himalayan Glaciers Could Vanish By 2035, Imperiling a Billion People
I was gazing at Mount Everest recently. Considering all of the human and ecological drama surrounding this
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Argentina Vetoes Law to Protect Glaciers, Favors Mining Projects
As usually happens in Argentina, authorities seem to have favored big corporations over environmental common sense. Last Friday, Argentinean President
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KQED Visits Yosemite's Shrinking Dana Glacier to See the Effects of Climate Change First-Hand
Despite having written at length (some might say excessively) about the sorry fate of Yosemite's dwindling glaciers and the Sierra snowpack, I've always felt as though my posts were missing something -- a certain audio/visual oomph, you might say.
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"Rubber" Duckies Deployed to Track Glacier Movements
This story seems to be one of those you couldn't make up even if you tried. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has dropped 90 rubber ducks into the ice of the Jakobshavn Greenland glacier in an attempt to study why
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Watch Greenland Melting - on the Icecam
To raise awareness of global warming, one of the two main newspapers in Greenland, Sermitslaq, has set up an 'ice cam' located on one of the largest inland glaciers, Ilulissat, to show it melting - as you watch! Updated hourly. It seems a sad state
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World Bank and Andean Countries Will Spend $32 Million To Study Glacial Retreat and Create Adaptation Plan
The Andean Community, an organization that gathers Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to treat common interests, announced recently a project to help three of
