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A British-French couple trying one of the world's most difficult hikes — more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) of Andean glaciers that straddle the border between Chile and Argentina — had to give up after terrifying wind and snow nearly buried them alive.
A disturbingly friendly grizzly bear that had boldly wandered through campgrounds and sniffed food and around the edges of tents has been killed after Glacier National Park officials determined the animal had become too much of a threat to humans.
Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.
Environmental regulators in Montana are allowing a gravel pit next to Glacier National Park to expand its operations, with restrictions to limit its noise and dust.
Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
A falling chunk of glacier crushed two brothers to death at a popular tourist spot, and one remained buried under ice blocks the size of large vehicles, police said Friday.
New Zealand's biggest glacier is melting at its fastest pace in recent history, a scientist said Thursday. The Tasman Glacier on South Island was 18 miles long in 1990, with virtually no lake at its front edge, Massey University glacier expert Martin Brook said.
A German tourist caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face of New Zealand's Franz Josef Glacier was forced to clean up his handiwork, local media reported Tuesday.
For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
Hundreds of naked people formed a "living sculpture" on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier Saturday, hoping to raise awareness about climate change.
A vast Patagonian glacier shed a 200-foot wall of ice with a roar during the night, sending debris plunging into a lake in southern Argentina as hundreds of tourists struggled to watch in the dark.
Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster Than EverSatellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. ............................................ Professor Jonathan Bamber fro …
The Arctic Will Be Ice-Free in Summer within 20 Years, Research SaysThe Polar Ocean Physics Group from Cambridge University compared measurements of ice thickness recorded by a Royal Navy nuclear submarine with those taken two years later in the same area by Pen Hadow, the explorer.
Lasers from space show shocking thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheetsThe British Antarctic Survey has released dramatic images of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets that have been been created using satellite lasers.
Stunning Views of Glaciers From SpaceTo a geologist, glaciers are among the most exciting features on Earth. Though they seem to creep along at impossibly slow speeds, in geologic time glaciers are relatively fast, powerful landscape artists that can carve out valleys and fjords in just a few thousand years.
A Few Western Glaciers Growing; What's Up With That?You're no doubt familiar with the rule -- glaciers are shrinking. So we're going to focus on the snowy exceptions. We'll work from of an inventory of Western glaciers assembled by Portland State University Professor Andrew Fountain.
The mystery of Lake Louise's missing waterThe Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise taps into the iconic emerald-blue lake in Alberta that shares its name for everything from supplying its laundry room and watering its gardens to ensuring the ice buckets are filled.
Antarctic glacier "thinning fast"One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than it was 10 years ago, according to research seen by the BBC.
South Cascade Glacier has shrunk by half since 1958The federal government released the most comprehensive study of melting glaciers in North America on Thursday, and the results show a rapid and accelerating shrinkage during the past 50 years due to global warming. One of the glaciers, the South Cascade Glacier in Washington, ha …
Glaciers a canary in the coal mine of global warmingU.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington State and Alaska reported this week that a major meltdown is under way. The Gulcana glacier in Alaska is one of three glaciers considered a benchmark by the U.S.
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict futureResearchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis.
US ecologist: GHGs mean no more glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park by 2020Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist who works at Montana's Glacier National Park, says the park's namesakes will be gone about ten years ahead of schedule, endangering the region's plants and animals.
Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years | LiveScienceAfter more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets. Should we be messing around with these kinds of things?
Bug found two miles under Greenland ice is reawakened from a 120,000-year sleepA tiny purple bug that has been buried under nearly two miles of ice for 120,000 years has been revived in a lab. The unusual bacterium was found deep within a Greenland ice sheet and scientists believe it holds clues to how life might survive on other planets.
Silk Road threatened by melting glaciers - environment - 14 June 2009 - New ScientistThe Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded – and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change.
Germany's highest mountain gets protective sun shield blanket for summerGermany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze (2,962 metres), is getting an enormous shield to protect its glacier from melting again this year, the company that runs the mountain's ski resort, Bayerische Zugspitzbahn, said on Wednesday.
Ice world: the catalyst for life?Snowball Earth is a creative idea that, like evolution by natural selection, the Big Bang and continental drift before it, provides an explanation for a set of disparate and unusual observations.
Glacier "Bleeds" Proof of Million-Year-Old Life-FormsGushing from a glacier, rust-stained Blood Falls contains evidence that microbes have survived in prehistoric seawater deep under ice for perhaps millions of years, a new study says. More Articles
Italy-Swiss Border Near Matterhorn may be redrawnMelting glaciers in the Alps may prompt Italy and Switzerland to redraw their borders near the Matterhorn, according to parliamentary draft legislation being readied in Rome.
Robot sub in Antarctica finds clues to rising seasA robot submarine has found clues to rising world sea levels by making trips deep beneath an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said on Tuesday.
Carbon Dioxide Drop And Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier To FormGlobal climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago.
Swiss scientists say world's glaciers melting faster than 1980's and 1990'sThe world's glaciers thinned by an average of almost 29 inches (74 centimeters) in 2007, indicating that they are melting twice as fast this decade as during the 1980s and 1990s, Swiss scientists said Thursday.
Car rental company recovers costs of lost car keys which were buried with dead son under a glacierA car rental company is insisting that the parents of two men killed in an ice collapse at Fox Glacier pay for transporting the rental car - even though the keys were buried with their dead son under tonnes of ice.
I believe in global warming. I was born in Northwestern Ohio near Defiance, Ohio. I lived near Ayersville; Ayersville is near Defiance. South Ridge is near Ayersville, and one of the ridges is north of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church.
Melting Glaciers Get Blanket TreatmentTo stop Alpine glaciers from melting, Italian scientists want to cover them with blankets.
Musical instruments made of ice Pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset plays instruments made from a 2,500 year old glacier; "the instruments belong to nature"
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