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Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin
by zopemaster — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:06 AM — filed under: ,
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Glaciers melting faster than anticipated
by zopemaster — published Nov 18, 2004 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
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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Insufficient snowfall a cause of recessive glaciers
by zopemaster — published Jun 16, 2005 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
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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Mass Balance of the Cryosphere
by zopemaster — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:02 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Mass loss on Himalayan glacier endangers water resources
by zopemaster — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:13 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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Melting glaciers on your local mountain - what now?
by zopemaster — published Aug 03, 2009 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM — filed under: , , , ,
On 24th and 25th September 2009 cc.alps is organising an international conference on the impact of melting glaciers on communities in collaboration with CIPRA Switzerland and the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Preservation in Crans Montana/CH.
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Mount Everest put forward for UNESCO World Heritage in Danger List
by zopemaster — published Dec 02, 2004 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:04 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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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Mountain glaciers in global climate-related observation networks
by zopemaster — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:02 AM — filed under: , , ,
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Mountain hike for climate protection
by zopemaster — published Aug 27, 2009 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:15 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
On 15 August 2009, some seventy hikers went up to the Goldbergkees glacier on the Hoher Sonnblick in Salzburg/A to draw attention to the impacts of global climate change.
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New hypothesis on deep erosion in high mountain regions
by zopemaster — published Nov 06, 2008 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 01:18 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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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