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Glaciers melting faster than anticipated
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Nov 18, 2004
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glaciers,
geomorphology,
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy
A new study by Zurich University using satellite images to analyse the surface area of 930 glaciers has shown that Switzerland's glaciers lost around 18% of their surface area between 1985 and 2000.
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Mount Everest put forward for UNESCO World Heritage in Danger List
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Dec 02, 2004
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world heritage,
protected areas / sanctuaries,
national parks,
protected areas / sanctuaries,
glaciers,
geomorphology
The Mount Everest region is at risk from global warming and should therefore be included on the UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger List. Mountaineers and representatives of the environmental group Friends of the Earth submitted a petition to the UNESCO Committee at the end of November.
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Fewer glaciers, more earthquakes?
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zopemaster
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Jun 02, 2005
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glaciers,
geomorphology,
natural hazards,
nature
According to the results of research carried out by the Universities of Münster/D and Berne/CH, the advance and retreat of glaciers and lakes can trigger earthquakes.
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Insufficient snowfall a cause of recessive glaciers
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Jun 16, 2005
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology
Lower winter precipitation has been one of the causes, along with global warming, behind melting glaciers over the past 150 years. These are the main findings of a study by researchers at the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de Grenoble/F and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich/CH, published in the Geophysical Research Letters.
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Glacier data from outer space
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Jan 27, 2006
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nature monitoring,
nature,
glaciers,
geomorphology
With the aid of new satellites glaciologists in Zurich are now able to study the world's ice regions with greater precision than before. The results of the data surveys are not encouraging: the Alps' glaciers are melting at a much faster rate than previously thought. Major changes have been noted in an increasing number of glaciers. The Zurich glaciologists are definite in their diagnosis: there is now no stopping the shrinkage of alpine glaciers.
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Dust cover speeds up snowmelt
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Jul 05, 2007
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Jul 07, 2021 01:21 AM
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glaciers,
geomorphology,
climate - influences,
climate change, climate policy,
research, science
A new study reveals that dust blown hundreds of kilometres by the wind from erosion zones or dry regions is capable of speeding up the snowmelt in the mountains of Colorado/USA by around one month. Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder were surprised not by the fact that the dust-covered snow cover was found to melt more quickly but by the extent to which this occurred in measurements and simulations.
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Water resources under threat in the Himalayas
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Aug 28, 2008
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
households,
water consumption, water supply
Climate change is threatening the water reserves of East Asia. An estimated 50 percent of the water from the Himalayas comes from glaciers, permafrost zones and the snowmelt.
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Rhône Glacier to melt away by 2100
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Nov 06, 2008
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
research, science
Scientists at the Écoles Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne/CH and Zurich/CH have used complex computer simulations to predict that the Rhône Glacier in the Canton of Valais/CH will have disappeared by 2100.
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New hypothesis on deep erosion in high mountain regions
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Nov 06, 2008
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Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM
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erosion,
soil immissions and hazards,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
climate change, climate policy
Researchers in the south-east of the Tibetan plateau have found that the moraine dams created during glacier fluctuations have over the millennia helped to slow down the erosion effect of large rivers known as downcutting.
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Even high-elevation Himalayan glaciers are melting
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Jan 15, 2009
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology
Glacier studies by an international team led by Natalie Kehrwald of Ohio State University show that even high-elevation glaciers are suffering from the effect of climate change.
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