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Glacier Fluctuations Influenced by Temperature Rather than Weather, Study Finds

2014-04-16 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: At the height of the last Ice Age, the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains were driven by air temperature, rather than precipitation, according to new research that carries with it a host of implications affecting glaciers today. The study, led by Dartmouth College researchers and financed by National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation, supports the idea that many of today's tropical glaciers are shrinking largely because of a warming climate,...

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