Melting glaciers and ice cap will drive sea level rise
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Glaciers in western China shrank 20% in 40 years
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Glaciers speed up due to global warming
Glaciers speed up due to global warming Glaciers speed up due to global warming mongabay.com June 5, 2007 Antarctic glaciers are moving faster due to global warming, reports the British…
Greenpeace pressures China on global warming
Greenpeace pressures China on global warming Greenpeace pressures China on global warming mongabay.com May 30, 2007 Greenpeace stepped up the pressure on China to do something about its surging greenhouse…
Melting Antarctic glaciers could trigger sea level rise
Melting Antarctic glaciers could trigger sea level rise Melting Antarctic glaciers could trigger sea level rise mongabay.com March 15, 2007 Perspective view of the Helheim Glacier at different times over…
Largest tropical glacier retreating at 200 feet per year in Peru
Largest tropical glacier retreating at 200 feet per year in Peru Largest tropical glacier retreating at 200 feet per year in Peru mongabay.com February 19, 2007 Peru's largest glacier is…
Melting glaciers, not ice sheets, primarily responsible for rising sea levels
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Greenland’s ice continues to melt
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Why some Himalayan glaciers aren’t melting due to climate change
New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting. The findings…
Alps could lose 80% of glacier cover by 2100
Alps could lose 80% of glacier cover by 2100 Alps could lose 80% of glacier cover by 2100 mongabay.com July 10, 2006 The European Alps could lose 80 percent of…
Last 50 years ‘unusually warm’, tropical glaciers melting rapidly finds research
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Africa’s glaciers gone by 2025
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Long-term cooling driven by Antarctica, not glaciers in Northern Hemisphere
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Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting find new studies
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New glacier history sheds light on climate change
New glacier history sheds light on climate change New glacier history sheds light on climate change By Phoebe Dey, ExpressNews Staff University of Alberta news release January 9, 2006 University…
Alaska's Columbia Glacier shrunk by 9 miles since 1980
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75% of Switzerland's glaciers gone by 2050, Europe heats up
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Global warming shrinks sacred glacier in the Andes
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