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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50 years on and Himalayan glacier is a lake
Felicity Carus When Fritz Muller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.
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Rapid glacier melt to affect Indo-Pak water disputes
Athar Parvaiz : The already exist ing disputes between India and Pakistan over water-sharing are expected to exasperate further given the forecast that the impact of climatic changes, due to environmental degradation, would cause drastic depletion in volume of water in the Indus River system originating from Himalayan glaciers.
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U.S. House Puts Climate Bill On Quick Pace For Passage
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have put major environmental legislation on a fast-track, boosting chances a climate change bill will pass this month or next, leading lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Himalayas warming faster
RICHA SHARMA
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The Gamburtsev mountains and the origin and early evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
The nature of initial glaciation on Antarctica about 34 million years ago is a mystery.
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Chinese farms threatened by melting glaciers
The Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded
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Seas Rise May Prove the Greater in Northeast
In the debate over global warming, one thing is clear: as the planet gets warmer, sea levels will rise. But how much, where and how soon? Those questions are notoriously hard to answer.
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Warming is now audible too, says new research
Ask any skeptic of global warming to keep his ears open and he would get to hear the evidence. With large portions of ice shelves falling off and glaciers melting, the ravages of climate change are not just visible, now it
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A retreat thats on from 258 yrs
Earlier studies said the glaciers have been retreating from the last 20,000 years, but that has now been disproved. A new study says glaciers started retreating only from the lat 258 years, writes Archita Bhatta
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Arctic thaw releasing methane?
Experts Worry Melting Permafrost May Release More Gas Oslo: A rise in concentrations of a powerful greenhouse gas over the Arctic after a decade of stability is stirring worries about a possible thaw of vast stores trapped in permafrost, experts said.