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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Spy images of Arctic ice melt released in US
Washington: The United States released more than a thousand intelligence images of Arctic ice to help scientists study the impact of climate change, within hours of a recommendation by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Earth Bears Scars Of Human Destruction: Astronaut
A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago. Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks out the window, particularly at the sliver of atmosphere wrapped around the planet.
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Estimation of contribution of southwest monsoon rain to Bhagirathi River near Gaumukh, western Himalayas, India, using oxygen-18
Gaumukh is the snout of the Gangotri glacier located at an altitude of 4000 m in the Himalayas from where the snow and glacier-fed Bhagirathi River emerges.
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White paper on Himalayan glaciers soon
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests will bring out a white paper on the current state of scientific knowledge on the Himalayan glaciers. It will establish an institutional mechanism to monitor the trends and variability of glaciers and study the impact of changes on the hydrological regime in the region.
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Science and Technology gets mandate of climate change issues
GANGTOK, July 12: Apparently concerned with the adverse impact of global warming and climate change in Sikkim, the State Government has given additional mandate of climate change issues to the Science and Technology Department, an official release said today.
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Satellite shows big thaw in old Arctic Sea ice
New Nasa satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is more than just shrinking in area, it is dramatically thinning. The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57% from the winter of 2004 to 2008. That
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Antarctica receding 7m/decade
Indian scientists, who have been monitoring fluctuations in the continental ice margin at the Western Schirmacher range in Antarctica, have found a recession of about 7 metres ice per decade
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Chamling seeks report on shrinkage of glacier
Alarmed over the reported shrinkage of the 26-km Zemu glacier in the eastern Himalayas due to global warming, Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has sought an
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Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought
As more and more ice slides into the ocean, sea levels are rising faster and faster
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Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat
The amount of carbon locked away in frozen soils in the far Northern Hemisphere is double previous estimates and rapid melting could accelerate global warming, a study released on Wednesday says. Large areas of northern Russia, Canada, Nordic countries and the U.S. state of Alaska have deep layers of frozen soil near the surface called permafrost.