February 4, 2008--Goodbye to glaciers? (Summit Daily News)
Glaciers — slow-moving “rivers” of ice — store significant amounts of fresh water, and people everywhere need their water for survival. According to Ecologist Dr. Dan Fagre, the disappearance of...
View ArticleAugust 18, 2009--Teton glaciers shrink, reducing potential water supply...
Glaciers on the iconic Teton Range are shrinking, researchers say, joining a growing list of glaciers in North America and beyond that are losing their surface area and potentially reducing the water...
View ArticleAugust 24, 2009--Warming oceans may shift Earth's pole (Environmental News...
Human-induced warming of the oceans could shift Earth's axis up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) by the end of the century, according to a new study. Earth wobbles almost constantly. Changes in air and ocean...
View ArticleSeptember 7, 2009--Humans causing erosion comparable to world’s largest...
A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers. Published online in the journal Nature...
View ArticleFebruary 20, 2010--Around the Mountains: Shrinking ice provides less buffer...
Professors have been out to the towns on both sides of the Continental Divide in Canada recently to talk about the shrinking of glaciers. It is, they say, a serious challenge, as the hydrological cycle...
View ArticleMay 12, 2014--Scientists warn of rising oceans as Antarctic ice melts (New...
The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of...
View ArticleJuly 11, 2014--Loss of snowpack and glaciers in rockies poses water threat...
When Rocky Mountain explorer Walter Wilcox hiked up to Bow Summit in Canada’s Banff National Park in 1896, he took a photo of a turquoise lake that later caught the eye of a National Geographic...
View ArticleOctober 5, 2014--Glaciers lose 204 billion tons of ice in three years...
Antarctica is losing so much mass that it’s actually changing Earth’s gravity. Antarctica is famously a continent capped with ice, but as Earth’s climate changes and the polar regions get warmer, its...
View ArticleNovember 22, 2014--Climate change threatens to strip the identity of Glacier...
What will they call Glacier National Park once the glaciers are gone? A century ago, this sweep of mountains on the Canadian border boasted some 150 ice sheets, many of them scores of feet thick,...
View ArticleAugust 3, 2015--Glaciers melting faster than ever (Science Daily)
The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide data on glacier changes for more than 120 years. Together with its National Correspondents in more...
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