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Climate change on the Tibetan plateau - audio slideshow - Guardian: Environment

Eric Hilaire — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks about his latest project that captures melting glaciers, grassland degradation and the loss of Tibetan culture

Eric Hilaire

Here's What Antartica Looks Like Under All That Ice - Mother Jones

Adam Mann — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

This story first appeared on the Wired website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Check out the most detailed map of a continent never truly seen by human eyes: the de-iced surface of Antarctica. By virtually peeling back the frozen ice sheet and studying the land beneath, researchers can get a better sense of how the southern pole of our planet could react to climate change. Bedmap2 was created by the British Antarctic Survey , and used decades of data to produce this detailed view of the frozen continent. NASA"s contribution to the dataset includes surface measurements from its now-retired orbiting Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and results from several years of flyovers by specialized aircraft that collected radar and other data measuring changes in the thickness of sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets as part of Operation IceBridge . The work improves on the decade-old Bedmap project, which virtually thawed the continent, but at ...

Video: Peeling Back the Ice of Antarctica - Wired Top Stories

Adam Mann — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Video: Peeling Back the Ice of Antarctica

Climate Change Bags Mount Everest - Mother Jones

John Upton — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

This story first appeared on the Slate website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest 60 years ago Wednesday, the mountaineers gazed over a view from the top of the world that had never been seen before. The view has changed since that historic day. Pollution and rising mountain temperatures are relentlessly shearing away at the Himalayas' frozen façade. Photographs taken around the time of the 1953 expedition show hulking ridges of ice that have since shrunk or disappeared. Glaciers and snow are melting throughout the sprawling mountain range, which stretches across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibetan China. The waning glaciers are leaving precarious mountainside lakes of cyan blue water in their wake. Continue Reading ...

Has Everest been good for Nepal's development? | John Vidal - The Guardian -- World Latest

John Vidal — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Once among the world's poorest people, the Sherpas have benefited hugely from the growth of the mountaineering industry Dawa Steven Sherpa is the new face of Nepal. Born in Khumjung, a village just 12 miles from Everest, he is in his 20s, speaks five languages, has a business degree from a British university, and is the director of a highly successful trekking and guiding company based in Kathmandu. He has climbed Everest twice and this week was airlifted off Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak, after a Japanese climber died of exhaustion at 7,700m (25,260ft). Everest and mountaineering have been the catalyst to enable three generations of his family to prosper. His father, Ang Tshering, used to climb with British mountaineer Chris Bonington and was one of the first pupils to study at the school Sir Edmund Hillary founded with the Himalayan Trust after the successful 1955 expedition. His grandfather, who portered for Hillary, barely had an education, eking a living from ...

Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers - New Scientist: Focus on America

Sun, 26 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers

Mount Everest's glaciers shrinking at increasing rate, say researchers - Guardian: Environment

Jason Burke — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Glaciers on or around Everest have shrunk 13% in 50 years with the snow line 180 metres higher than it was 50 years ago Global warming is melting snow and ice on the world's highest mountain at an accelerating rate, researchers have claimed. A study by a team led by a Nepali scientist at the University of Milan has found that glaciers on or around Mount Everest have shrunk by 13% in the last 50 years with the snow line 180 metres higher than it was 50 years ago. The glaciers are disappearing faster every year , it says. The 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the 8,848 metre (29,028ft) peak by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay will be celebrated next week. The researchers say they suspect that the decline of snow and ice in the Everest region is a result of changes in global climate caused by human-generated greenhouse gases. However, they have not yet established a firm connection, Sudeep Thakuri, who led the team, said. The landscape around Mount Everest has changed ...

Mount Everest shedding its frozen cloak - New Kerala: India News

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Washington, May 15 : Researchers led by an Indian origin have found abundant evidence showing decline of snow and ice in Mount Everest region.

Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100 - New Scientist: Opinion

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100

Politics and climate change go hand-in-hand - Guardian: Environment

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Though Sarah Palin has reversed her policy since she was governor, it is undeniable that Alaska is changing fast

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'Best estimate' of melting ice caps - BBC News - Science & Environment

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Experts have come up with their most accurate estimate yet for the impact of melting ice sheets and glaciers on sea level.

By Degrees: What Will a Doubling of Carbon Dioxide Mean for Climate? - NYT: Home Page

By JUSTIN GILLIS — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

By Degrees: What Will a Doubling of Carbon Dioxide Mean for Climate?

Op-Ed Contributors: Hands Across the Melting Arctic - International Herald Tribune: Editorials

By JAMES F. COLLINS, ROSS A. VIRGINIA and KENNETH S. YALOWITZ — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Op-Ed Contributors: Hands Across the Melting Arctic

Dot Earth Blog: Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise - NY Times: Science

By ANDREW C. REVKIN — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Dot Earth Blog: Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise

How climate change affects iceberg production by Greenland glaciers - New Kerala: India News

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Washington, May 9 : A sophisticated computer model that provides a new insight into the impact of climate change on the production of icebergs by Greenland glaciers has revealed that the shape of the ground beneath the ice has a strong effect on its movement.

Freak May snowstorm is weather, not climate - Minnesota Public Radio: Science

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Paul Huttner sees clues that "all seem to be pointing in the same direction," but he won't draw conclusions from a single event.

Movie Blog @ MSPIFF, Day 16: ‘Fall And Winter’ - WCCO: National

Jonathon Sharp — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Doom-saying documentaries these days focus mainly on the threat of climate change. They’ve got glaciers melting, landscapes dying, sea levels rising, and coastal cities waiting to slide under the sea. Lots of docs in this [...]

Antarctic glaciers thinning at 'upper bound of normal' in recent decades - New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

London, April 15 : A new research has shown that glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning rapidly in the last few decades and it has contributed significantly to sea level rise.

Antarctic ice melting at record rate, study shows - The Guardian -- World Latest

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The evidence comes from a 364-metre ice core containing a record of freezing and melting over the previous millennium Summer ice is melting at a faster rate in the Antarctic peninsula than at any time in the last 1,000 years, new research has shown. The evidence comes from a 364-metre ice core containing a record of freezing and melting over the previous millennium. Layers of ice in the core, drilled from James Ross Island near the northern tip of the peninsula, indicate periods when summer snow on the ice cap thawed and then refroze. By measuring the thickness of these layers, scientists were able to match the history of melting with changes in temperature. Lead researcher Dr Nerilie Abram, from the Australian National University and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said: "We found that the coolest conditions on the Antarctic peninsula and the lowest amount of summer melt occurred around 600 years ago. "At that time temperatures were around 1.60C lower than those recorded in the ...

Pakistan to be hardest hit by climate change: Daily - New Kerala: India News

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Islamabad, April 9 : Pakistan will be amongst the countries hardest hit by climate change, said a leading daily, warning that a disaster of enormous proportions is silently evolving in the mountains up north.

How climate change actually may help penguins - MSNBC

Science — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

By Douglas MainLiveScienceAntarctic warming has been a boon for one large colony of Adélie penguins, a finding that's surprising scientists.A recent study found that over the last 60 years, a colony of the birds on Beaufort Island in the Ross Sea, south of New Zealand, increased by 84 percent, from 35,000 breeding pairs to 64,000 breeding pairs. This increase has come as glaciers have retreated fr...

1,600 Years of Ice in Peru’s Andes Melted in 25 Years, Scientists Say - NY Times: World

By JUSTIN GILLIS — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Scientists say the rapid melting of the Quelccaya ice cap, the world’s largest tropical ice sheet, is the latest sign of global warming.

Peru Bores Through Andes to Water Desert After Century of Dreams - International Herald Tribune: Americas

By REUTERS — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.

Global warming paradox: More sea ice around Antarctica in winter, study says - MSNBC

Alister Doyle, Reuters — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:30:00 GMT

OSLO, Norway - Global warming is expanding the extent of sea ice around Antarctica in winter in a paradoxical shift caused by cold plumes of summer melt water that re-freeze fast when temperatures drop, according to a study unveiled Sunday.An increasing summer thaw of ice on the edges of Antarctica, twinned with less than expected snowfall on the frozen continent, is also adding slightly to s...

A glorious winter, but the Alps face a warmer world – bringing huge change - The Guardian -- World Latest

Kim Willsher — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Under Mont Blanc's glittering peak, mountain guides and scientists tell the same story: the Alps are warming, the evidence of climate change is clear and the golden years of ski tourism will soon be past From his office in the alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, meteorologist Gilles Brunot is looking out at snow-capped peaks washed with spring sunshine, resplendent under a pale blue sky. Much of northern Europe is pining for spring, but nobody here is complaining about the weather. Why would they? First, a surprisingly clement autumn brought the hikers and climbers in droves. Then, seamlessly, winter arrived with early snowfall in November that has been topped up regularly until last week, delighting the skiers. Fabulous for the tourist industry, of course. And as the snow accumulates on the ski slopes, 2013 hardly seems to be adding to the body of evidence of global warming. Deep in the Alps, however, scientists are observing, monitoring and reporting the effects of changing ...