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In Canadian Peaks, Scientists Track Impacts Vanishing Ice
2015-08-27 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In the summer of 1955, a floatplane flew a small group of American climbers to the edge of a massive icefield straddling the Continental Divide along the Yukon/Northwest Territories border in northern Ed Struzik is a fellow at Queens Universitys School of Policy Studies, Queens Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy. Canada. When the group saw the cluster of jagged peaks and sheer rock walls they were searching for, they were stunned: Emerging from the edges of the Brintnell/Bologna icefield...
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US researchers uncover secret of Greenland's vanishing lakes
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists were baffled last year after meltwater lakes atop Greenland's ice sheet suddenly drained out at rates rivaling Niagara Falls. Now a team of U.S. researchers says it has figured out the bizarre phenomenon and that could help them forecast global sea-level rise. Vertical shafts in the ice sheet, called moulins, can funnel melt water beneath parts of the glacier and lift them up. This causes cracks beneath the so-called supragalcial lakes that can empty them in days, according to scientists...
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Spacetime curvature measured using a vanishing star
2015-01-13 14:00:09| Extremetech
As one star spins another out of view for the next century and a half, astronomers use it to weight an incredible binary system.
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Mount Kenyas Vanishing Glaciers
2014-12-18 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In 1941, an Italian civil servant named Felice Benuzzi was captured by Allied forces and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in East Africa. The camp faced Mount Kenya, 17,000 feet high, and Benuzzi found himself staring longingly at that larger, snow-blanketed world from the smallness of his own. Eventually he couldnt help himself; he decided to climb the mountain. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage Indian children carrying coal to a crushing machine in the state of Meghalaya. India...
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Rocky Mountain Forests Vanishing as Planet Heats Up
2014-09-10 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Climate change could kill up to 90 percent of the forests covering the Rocky Mountains, warned the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists today in a new study based in part on projections made by the U.S. Forest Service. Extreme heat and drought, more and larger wildfires over a longer fire season, and beetle infestations have killed tens of millions of trees in the Rocky Mountains over the past 15 years, according to the study, "Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk." Large wildfires, such as the...
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