Category Archives: Glaciers

Reassuring News:Greenland’s Ice Melting Not As Fast As Expected

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

A new study has some reassuring news. Greenland’s glaciers hold  water to raise sea level by 20 feet, and they are melting as the planet warms, so there’s a lot to worry. A few years ago, the Jakobshavn glacier in … Continue reading →

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Siachen:World’s Highest Battleground

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

 Siachen glacier  is billed as the world’s highest combat zone, but atrocious weather conditions have claimed more lives than actual fighting. The 77-kilometre-long (48-mile) glacier traverses the Line of Control, the de facto border separating Indian- and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, at … Continue reading →

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Melting Ice on Arctic Islands a Major Player in Sea Level Rise

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher. The United Nations projects that the … Continue reading →

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Puncak Jaya is Dying

Posted on July 2, 2010 by

In Indonesia, one of the world’s last tropical glaciers is dying. Perched atop the 16,000-foot peak Puncak Jaya in Papua province, the glacier has shrunk in size by 80 percent since 1936, and most of that since the 1970s. The … Continue reading →

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Glacial Flooding: Another Threat of Global Warming

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Dear readers .Here is another interesting reblogged post.Enjoy. For years, I had heard about how glacier melting caused by global warming was imperiling the world’s fresh water supplies, the vast majority of which come from mountains. But I hadn’t thought … Continue reading →

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Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake

Posted on June 5, 2010 by

Scientists have located the ideal drill site for the first ever exploration of an Antarctic sub-glacial lake, a development that is likely to facilitate a revolution in climate-change research and which may lead to the discovery of life-forms cut off … Continue reading →

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Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago

Posted on March 7, 2010 by

Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball Earth” event long suspected to have taken place around that time.Led by scientists at Harvard University, the team reports … Continue reading →

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UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 – an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report. The “Glaciergate” … Continue reading →

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