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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High frequency new particle formation in the Himalayas
Rising air pollution levels in South Asia will have worldwide environmental consequences.
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Winds, not just global warming, eating away at the ice sheets
Two new studies point to random, wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean--not global warming--as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses through the glaciers draining both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.
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Tracking down a melting glacier
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To help figure out what's happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier, a U.S. rocket scientist sent 90 rubber ducks into the ice, hoping someone finds them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.
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Brace for Kosi all over: City study
Pune, September 17 Kosi may not be the end of the story; in fact, it may be just the beginning. According to research by a team at the University of Pune (UoP) and at the College of Military Engineering (CME), there has been an increase in the number of
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Glacier commission to submit report in December
Sikkim has led the way by setting up a Commission on Glacier and Climate in the State in September 2007. According to ML Arrawatia, member secretary of the Commission and also Secretary of Science and Technology department, Government of India has also taken steps to study the glaciers of the country. Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh has released a book also on National Action Plan for climate change and he has set up a national council to study it.
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Living made difficult
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.
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Keeping CO2 emissions at 2005 level not enough
New York, Painting a grim picture, a new study shows that even if greenhouse gas emissions are fixed at 2005 levels, irreversible warming will lead to biodiversity loss and substantial glacial melt. The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, an new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanog raphy show.
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Changing streamflow patterns in the rivers of northwestern Himalaya: Implications of global warming in the 20th century
The results of trend analyses of the discharge data of four rivers in northwestern Himalaya, namely Beas, Chenab, Ravi and Satluj, are presented here and the impact of climate change in the last century is discussed. In the case of Satluj river, studies indicate an episodic variation in discharge in all three seasons on a longer timescale of about 82 years (1922
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Glacier melts, 5000-yr secret out
Objects Of Neolithic Era Found High In The Alps In Warming Fallout Bern: Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows. The unremarkable journey through the Schnidejoch pass, a lofty trail 2,756 metres above sea level, has been a boon to scientists but it would never have emerged if climate change were not melting the nearby glacier.
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Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. By many expert accounts, this is the first time the Northwest Passage over North America and the Northern Sea Route over Europe and Asia have been open simultaneously in at least half a century, if not longer.