Alaska sees record temperatures in heatwave
An "all-time high" temperature record has been set in the US state of Alaska, despite much of the country sitting in the Arctic circle. Temperatures peaked at 32.22 Celsius (90F) on 4 July at an airport
Glacial Melt
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Polar Ice-sheet melting jumps three-fold: NASA
NEW DELHI: The combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years says a landmark study published Thursday in the journal Science. The
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Arctic sea ice bigger than US melts
DOHA(QATAR): An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the UN weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before
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Seas rising faster than projected, low areas threatened: Report
Sea levels are rising 60% faster than UN projections, threatening low-lying areas from Miami to the Maldives, a study said on Wednesday. The report, issued during UN talks in Qatar on combating climate
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10% of country’s glaciers could vanish
Depletion in, what is, the nation’s gushing resource today, would be the most likely scenario it could expect in not so distant future. This was based on the findings of Brigham Young University’s professor,
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Every year, Greenland is losing 200m tonnes of ice
Sat Photos Reveal Alarming Trend Washington: Greenland is losing an average of 200 million tonnes of ice every year since 2003, which could have a big impact on sea levels, scientists claim. The latest
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No nation immune to climate change: World Bank
- All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world's poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones and drought, the World Bank said
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Obama vows climate push for 'future generations'
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed a new push for action on climate change, saying the United States had a duty to come together to curb emissions in the wake of megastorm Sandy. In his first
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Obama sees second-term focus on climate change
President Barack Obama said he plans to work with Congress in his second term to curb human-aggravated climate change, but not at the expense of the U.S. economy. "I am a firm believer that climate
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Kilimanjaro may be ice-free by ’60
London: The peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro — world’s highest free-standing mountain — may be ice-free as soon as 2060, scientists have warned. Researchers with Nasa’s Earth Observatory, have found that
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Goodbye glaciers
Researchers are racing to determine how shrinking glaciers in the Andes will affect the water supply of millions of people.