glaciers
Water levels of the critical rivers that originate in the Himalayan glaciers will not drop over the next century, say scientists.
The latest research led by Dr Walter Immerzeel, a scientist from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and visiting scientist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal, indicates that increasing rains would...
By Simon Redfern (Reporter, BBC News)
Instead of wearing mountains down, evidence from Europe's high Alps shows that glaciers shield summits from erosion, acting as a protective lid.
French scientists studied erosion on Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest peak, below and around its glaciers.
Ice at the highest points froze to the mountain rock and played little...
Glaciers are kind of the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Studying them can give us a lot of information about long-term temperature trends, and most of what glaciologists are seeing is not very good. A recent study published in Cryosphere reports that glaciers in the tropical Andes, in...
This conference (Foro Internacional Glaciares: el reto de la investigación al servicio de la sociedad en el marco del cambio climático) will bring together scientists, practitioners and representatives from public and governmental institutions to exchange experiences, recent progress and coordinate current and future initiatives in the field of glaciology and high mountains in Peru...
5 Septmber 2012. WASHINGTON—For the past four decades scientists have monitored the ebbs and flows of the icefields in the southernmost stretch of South America’s vast Andes Mountains, detecting an overall loss of ice as the climate warms. A new study, however, finds that the rate of glacier thinning has increased by about half over the last dozen years in the...
Interested in receiving a graduate degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) from a university in the United States? Then this announcement is just for you.
3 fully funded student fellowships are available at the University at Albany, State University of New York through an initiative funded by the US State Department. The students are expected to participate in an international and interdisciplinary...
When the large amount of debris was cleared from a large pit found in a small town on the outskirts of Beijing, villagers found that the stone pit is as wide as 20 meters and as deep as 18 meters, and the entire pit is composed of hard granite. What is the true identity of this mysterious stone pit?
The discovery left geologists baffled at first. However, experts reached a startling...
The effects of global warming will be varied. Many are already being felt and rich nations are taking measures to adapt. Perhaps the first and the worst effects poor people will come about as a result of the rapid melting of mountain glaciers. These effects are highly geo-specific and may be more predictable than other effects of global warming - and are already under way.
Oxfam is...
Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they are adapting to it.
Poor women and men throughout...
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