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Scientists fly glacial ice to south pole to unlock secrets of global warming
2016-03-27 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a few weeks, researchers will begin work on a remarkable scientific project. They will drill deep into the Col du Dôme glacier on Mont Blanc and remove a 130 metre core of ice. Then they will fly it, in sections, by helicopter to a laboratory in Grenoble before shipping it to Antarctica. There the ice core will be placed in a specially constructed vault at the French-Italian Concordia research base, 1,000 miles from the south pole. The Col du Dôme ice will become the first of several dozen...
Rising number of glacial lakes threatening communities
2015-11-26 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: With 2015 set to become the hottest year on record, the government on Thursday told the lower house of parliament on Thursday that while there was an increasing phenomenon of glacial lakes presenting a threat to communities, they needed more comprehensive study to determine the effect of climate change. Submitting a written reply in the National Assembly on Thursday during the question hour, Climate Change Minister Zahid Hamid said there were a number of studies on glaciers in Pakistan, but they...
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Sudden draining of glacial lakes explained
2015-06-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] In 2008 scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington documented for the first time how the icy bottoms of lakes atop the Greenland Ice Sheet can crack open suddenly—draining the lakes completely within hours and sending torrents of water to the base of the ice sheet thousands of feet below. Now they have found a surprising mechanism that triggers the cracks. Scientists had theorized that the sheer weight of the water in t…
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Glacial Melt and Precipitation Create Massive Runoff in Gulf of Alaska
2015-03-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Rapidly melting glaciers, rain, and snow are combining to dump a massive amount of freshwater into the Gulf of Alaska, with important implications for ocean chemistry and marine biology, according to a new study. So much meltwater is now flowing into the Gulf of Alaska that if all the streams and other runoff sources were combined it would create the worlds sixth-largest coastal river, according to research in The Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. The collective discharge into the Gulf of...
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In shadow of glacial lakes, Pakistans mountain communities look to climate adaptation
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster. With plenty of fertile land and fresh water, this scenic mountain valley would be an ideal dwelling place - if not for the constant threat of the surrounding glacial lakes bursting their ridges and gushing down the hillside, leaving a trail of destruction behind. "We can safely say that over 16,000 have been displaced due to [glacial lake outburst...
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