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Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin
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Glaciers melting faster than anticipated
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Nov 18, 2004
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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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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,
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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
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Jul 07, 2021 01:02 AM
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
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climate change past and future,
climate change, climate policy
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Mass loss on Himalayan glacier endangers water resources
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Jul 07, 2021 01:13 AM
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climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
glaciers,
geomorphology,
water consumption, water supply
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Melting glaciers on your local mountain - what now?
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Aug 03, 2009
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geomorphology,
climate change - repercussions,
climate change, climate policy,
tourism
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
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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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Mountain glaciers in global climate-related observation networks
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Mountain hike for climate protection
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Aug 27, 2009
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climate change, climate policy,
alpinism,
sport,
glaciers,
geomorphology
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
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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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