Glacial retreat
Mountain glaciers are like giant sandpaper blocks, scouring their valley homes as they advance and retreat. This scrubbing tends to purge any past record of a glacier's size, foiling scientists' efforts to model the extent of mountain ice during past climate shifts.
The good news is the sediments scoured from the land by glaciers eventually ends up dumped offshore, in the ocean....
A comienzos de septiembre se desarrolló el “II Encuentro Internacional sobre Cambio Climático y Retroceso de Glaciares” en los Parques Nacionales Andinos de Lauca – Chile, Vilacota – Perú y Sajama – Bolivia; en este último tuvo lugar dicho evento, los participantes trabajaron en mesas enfocadas a diferentes temáticas y, redactaron una Declaración que exige a las autoridades de los tres países...
Today, climate change is no longer a matter of scientific debate as statistics indicate that earth is warming up by approximately 0.750C in the last 100 years. As a result of this global warming, the mountainous regions are experiencing more rapid warming compared to other areas. The warming in the Himalayas in the last three decades has been between 0.150 C to – 0.60 C per decade. Studies...
