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‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline | Glaciers

One of the few stable glaciers in a warming world, Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz province, Argentina, is now undergoing…

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Melting glaciers are awakening Earth’s most dangerous volcanoes

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to…

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Many glaciers are shrinking more in summer than they can grow in winter » Yale Climate Connections

Transcript: Across Antarctica, Greenland, and other polar areas, icy glaciers cover large areas of land and extend into the sea.…

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Glaciers will take centuries to recover even if global warming is reversed, scientists warn

New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries — even if human intervention cools the…

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Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North…

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Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved | Arctic

The problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide…

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Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2bn people, says UN | Glaciers

Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as…

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Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth’s surface and paving the…

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Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals | Glaciers

Melting glaciers have caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century alone, a decades-long study has revealed. The research…

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Global retreat of glaciers has strongly accelerated

International researchers with the participation of TU Graz present a global assessment of ice loss since the beginning of the…

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