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
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Glaciers shrinking fast
National Glaciers Within the last three decades, glaciers of Bhutan shrank by 189sqkm, less than half the size of one of the country’s smallest dzongkhags, Pemagatshel. It is a fall by 7.3 percent,
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Arctic sea 'could be ice free by 2015
Arctic Sea could be ice free by the summer of 2015, a leading ocean expert in Britain has claimed. According to Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, the ice that forms over the Arctic sea is shrinking so rapidly that it may vanish altogether in four years' time, destroying the natural habitat of animals like polar bears.
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Melting Tibetan glaciers may hit Brahmaputra, says study
Talks of Himalayan glaciers melting fast which will adversely affect major rivers like Brahmaptura has come to be true, but this time this has been confirmed in China which is building a mega dam to control flow of the river. Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, said that glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau is melting very fast which will affect the climate and major rivers. The Tibetan Plateau contains the world’s third-largest store of ice. Temperatures are rising four times faster than elsewhere in China, and the Tibetan glaciers are retreating at a higher speed than in any other part of the world
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Warming Revives Dream of Sea Route in Russian Arctic
Rounding the northernmost tip of Russia in his oceangoing tugboat this summer, Capt. Vladimir V. Bozanov saw plenty of walruses, some pods of beluga whales and in the distance a few icebergs. With an
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Brit team to drill into lost Antarctic world
An ambitious mission to search for life that has been buried beneath 3km of ice in an Antarctic lake for hundreds of thousands of years begins in earnest this week. A team of British scientists and
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Sustainability of Himalayas: Exploitation taking its toll
Advocating to follow Gandhiji’s message for Sustainability of Himalayas, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Friday said pressure of population and exploitation of natural resources are extracting
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Flash floods scare in Sikkim as glaciers melt
GANGTOK: Glaciers in north Sikkim, disturbed by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, have started melting faster, leading to fears of flash floods in the region. Geologists say the increasing flow of water could
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First-ever study to measure impact of soot on glaciers
For the first time in India, scientific tests will be conducted on the Himalayan glaciers in Uttarakhand to measure the impact of carbon soot on glaciers. Scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation,
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Extreme Steps Needed To Meet Climate Target
New research, to be published in the journal Climatic Change in November, suggests humankind may have to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on a vast scale if emissions keep rising after 2020.
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World Atlas Ice Loss Claim Exaggerated: Scientists
The Times Atlas of the World exaggerated the rate of Greenland's ice loss in its thirteenth edition last week, scientists said on Monday. The atlas, published by HarperCollins, showed that Greenland