The Arctic’s glaciers are retreating, exposing new coastlines that could trigger tsunamis
The unstable new coastline poses safety risks for the tourists that flock to coastal glacial areas for their beauty and ...
natural2 天
Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink
Retreating glaciers created 2,500km of “new” coastline and 35 “new” islands in the ... meaning that they are more easily eroded by wave action, mass wasting and other processes because of a lack of ...
Reuters13 天
World's glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, U.N. says
Zemp said that five of the last six years registered the largest losses, with glaciers losing 450 gigatons of mass in 2024 alone. The accelerated loss has made mountain glaciers one of the largest ...
CNN7 天
China’s glacier area shrinks by 26% over six decades due to global warming
Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the largest glacial mass loss on record taking place in the last three years, according to a UNESCO report. As the important water ...
The Conversation24 天
NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes ...
Winter snow supplies new mass to glaciers and must balance summer melt if glaciers are to maintain their size. Recent surveys have shown that summer melt far exceeds winter inputs. During ...
CU Boulder News & Events5 年
T. Nelson Caine
Research interests are in the fields of present-day erosional and hydrologic processes in mountain environments and in mass wasting and slope development. This includes studies of snow hydrology, ...
The Hindu12 天
Glaciers — no frozen relics but the pulse of earth’s water system
lost 10% of its total glacier mass between 2022 and 2023, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that glaciers have ...
Phys.org24 天
NZ's glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice—as more vanishes, landscapes ...
Winter snow supplies new mass to glaciers and must balance summer melt if glaciers are to maintain their size. Recent surveys have shown that summer melt far exceeds winter inputs. During ...