State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Glacial Melt
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Irrigation as a potential driver for anomalous glacier behavior in high mountain Asia
<p>Many glaciers in the northwest of High Mountain Asia (HMA) show an almost zero or positive mass balance, despite the global trend of melting glaciers. This phenomenon is often referred to as the “Karakoram
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Global sea ice hits record low for January as the annual polar melting period expanded
The world’s sea ice shrank to a record January low last month as the annual polar melting period expanded, experts say. The 5.04 million square miles of ice in the Arctic was 525,000 square miles below
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Climate change is speeding up global sea level rise, expected to double by 2100
A group of researchers has used satellite data from last 25 years to show the rapid rate of sea level increase and how bad it might get by the end of this century. Thanks to melting ice sheets in Antarctica
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Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era
<p>Satellite altimetry has shown that global mean sea level has been rising at a rate of ∼3 ± 0.4 mm/y since 1993. Using the altimeter record coupled with careful consideration of interannual
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North American Ice Sheet Decay Changed Antarctic Climate
New research led by CU Boulder shows that the changing topography of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere during the last Ice Age forced changes in the climate of Antarctica, a previously undocumented
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Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss
Worldwide glacier retreat and associated future runoff changes raise major concerns over the sustainability of global water resources, but global-scale assessments of glacier decline and the resulting
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Widespread moulin formation during supraglacial lake drainages in Greenland
<p>Moulins permit access of surface meltwater to the glacier bed, causing basal lubrication and ice speedup in the ablation zone of western Greenland during summer. Despite the substantial impact of moulins
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Finding climate change solutions offers big opportunity to private sector’
Climate change impact offers tremendous economic opportunities to the private sector. It can come up with local solutions to solve issues in agriculture and water utilisation, said Ronnie Coffman, Director
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Scientists drill into Antarctic ice to study global warming
CHENNAI: Travelling across thick layers of ice at a glacial pace and drilling a hole through a large ice shelf formed over an unexplored region of Antarctica, Indian scientists are inching closer to uncovering
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In Antarctica ice, hunt for climate change clues
Scientists measure ice rise dynamics over 4 weeks, say it can throw light on how ice flows into ocean It is a piece of a larger puzzle that begins with an ice rise in East Antarctica. Vikram Goel, 28,