glacier retreat
Two recent studies offer complementary accounts of the ways that glacier retreat and other impacts of climate change have displaced indigenous people from their communities in the Peruvian Andes. One describes the people who have left as refugees, the other as migrants. Both emphasize...
Glaciers, permafrost on the decline, may disappear.
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder indicates an ongoing loss of ice on Niwot Ridge and the adjacent Green Lakes Valley in the high mountains west of Boulder is likely to...
From 4-8 October 2015, researchers gathered to discuss and learn about the “Mountains of Our Future Earth.” This conference was held at the Centre for...
Ice caps, very large sheets of ice, do not only exist at the earth’s poles. There are tropical ice caps inmountain ranges, too. The largest is the Quelccaya IceCap, on top of the Andes Mountains in Peru.
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About 5,500 glaciers could disappear or drastically retreat by the end of the century with severe impacts on farming and hydropower, say scientists
Most of the glaciers in the Mount Everest region will disappear or drastically retreat as temperatures increase with...
Officials from 26 countries including India are participating in a six-day Symposium on Glaciology in High-Mountain Asia (1 – 6 March, 2015) here aimed at...
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