Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions continue. …read more Source:: Science
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Melting glaciers causing sea levels to rise at ever greater rates
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•Melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic as well as ice melt from glaciers all over the world are causing sea levels to rise. Glaciers alone lost more than …read more Source:: Science
Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth’s ice ages
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•Over the last 540 million years, the Earth has weathered three major ice ages — periods during which global temperatures plummeted, producing extensive ice sheets and glaciers that have stretched …read more Source:: Science
Rapidly receding glaciers on Baffin Island reveal long-covered Arctic landscapes
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•Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years. …read more Source:: Science
New Greenland maps show more glaciers at risk
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•New maps of Greenland’s coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as …read more Source:: Science
Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth’s rotation
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The melting of glaciers caused by the world’s rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth’s rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Dust-covered ice glaciers found on Mars
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 3.6-foot(1.1- meter) thick layer of ice, …read more Source:: UKScienceNews