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Environment News tagged with ice melting

Frigid Farewells: 10 Vanishing Tropical Glaciers
Environment  (tags: world, environment, globalwarming, ice melting, glacier melt )

Katie
- 2 days ago - webecoist.com
The most vulnerable mountain & highland glaciers are those in the tropics and their loss could be devastating for the local environment, not to mention the plants, animals and people who have depended on their life-giving water for thousands of years.
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Greenland Ice Loss 'Accelerating'
Environment  (tags: News, environment, globalwarming, Climate Change, ice melting, greenland )

Katie
- 14 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing contribution to sea level rise, a study has confirmed.
9 comments
Kilimanjaro Ice Fields Set to Disappear
Environment  (tags: world, globalwarming, environment, Kilimanjaro Ice, ice melting )

Katie
- 22 days ago - livescience.com
After holding firm for thousands of years, shrinking ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are dramatically depleted compared to just 100 years ago, a new study finds.
38 comments
Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades
Environment  (tags: environment, arctic lake, ice melting, study, report )

Katie
- 29 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study.....
69 comments
West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought
Environment  (tags: global warming, antarctic, ice melting, study )

Katie
- 37 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice
5 comments
More Ice Helps Save Polar Bears
Environment  (tags: polar bears, Ice melting, Arctic, environment, government, globalwarming, habitatdestruction, nature, wildlife, animals )

TW
- 665 days ago - gather.com
Ice melting in the Arctic is forcing polar bears to go farther to hunt for food or forage inland, making many of them starve. In our last installment of the Plan B series, Janet Babin explores how scientists are combating their extinction.
13 comments
Polar Bears Dying in Years of Early Ice Melt
Environment  (tags: ice melting, climate change, polar bears dying, global warming, wildlife, habitatdestruction )

Simone
- 733 days ago - nature.com
Oldest and youngest bears in Canada's Hudson Bay die off after warm springs. A census of polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay has lent some hard numbers to the long-held fear that retreating sea ice is causing some bears to starve or drown.
1 comment
Northwest Passage Emerges Under Melting Ice
Environment  (tags: Northwest Passage, waterway, arctic, ice melting, global warming, European, danger )

Ben
- 803 days ago - blogmyway.org
Arctic ice coverage has receded this week to record lows, the European Space Agency said, raising the prospect of greater maritime traffic through a long-sought waterway known as the Northwest Passage.
5 comments
   

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