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Soot and Dirt Is Melting Snow and Ice Around the World
2014-06-10 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It's easy to imagine new snow so bright that we must avert our eyes even while wearing sunglasses. What scientists are discovering, though, is this brilliant whiteness of snow and ice is increasingly being dimmed by air pollution. From Greenland's ice sheets to Himalayan glaciers and the snowpacks of western North America, layers of dust and soot are darkening the color of glaciers and snowpacks, causing them to absorb more solar heat and melt more quickly, and earlier in spring. This trend...
Dust Particles Are Speeding Up the Melting of Greenland's Ice Shelf
2014-06-10 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: In a paper recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers argue that, according to evidence at hand, Greenland's ice shelf has high chances to get a whole lot smaller way sooner than anyone would expect. Since the melting of this massive block of ice is expected to translate into a noteworthy increase in global sea levels, specialists warn that, the faster it melts, the sooner and the worse coastal communities could be affected by this phenomenon. What's interesting...
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Glacier feeding Indus tributary melting fast, JNU study says
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: This could be worrisome for Himalayan glaciers. A team from Jawaharlal Nehru University has found significantly accelerated ice melting on Chhota Shigri glacier in Lahaul and Spiti over the last 10 years. The JNU team, which has been studying the glacier for several years to understand the impact of climate change, has used meteorological data of 40 years to extrapolate the pace of ice-melt on the glacier. This is the first scientific study to have monitored a Himalayan glacier for four decades...
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Melting Arctic opens new passages for invasive species
2014-05-28 08:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: For the first time in roughly 2 million years, melting Arctic sea ice is connecting the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans. The newly opened passages leave both coasts and Arctic waters vulnerable to a large wave of invasive species, biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center assert in a commentary published May 28 in Nature Climate Change. Two new shipping routes have opened in the Arctic: the Northwest Passage through Canada, and the Northern Sea Route, a 3000-mile stretch...
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Athabasca glacier melting astonishing rate more five metres a year
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guelph Mercury: What's believed to be the most-visited glacier in North America is losing more than five metres of ice every year and is in danger of completely disappearing within a generation, says a Parks Canada manager. The Athabasca Glacier is the largest of six ice sheets that form part of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park. It is a popular destination for tourists from around the world who climb aboard huge snow coaches to get an up-close look. While it receives about seven metres of snowfall...
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