Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035
Washington, November 11, 2008 - The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, a large number of them may disappear by 2035 because of climate change, warn Indian and foreign environmentalists and geologists.
www.enn.com: Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035

Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000
Washington, September 22, 2008 - Penny Ice Cap is the southernmost of Canada’s big ice caps. Located on Baffin Island, the ice cap has a maximum elevation of about 1,900 meters. Like other glaciers and ice caps in the Northern Hemisphere, the Penny has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades. A 2004 study of the Penny Ice Cap using NASA airborne lasers flown on missions in 1995 and 2000 showed that the lower elevations of the Penny Ice Cap had thinned by as much as 1 meter per year. However, scientists are uncertain how much of the retreat is because of recent climate change (global warming) and how much of it is due to declines that have been going on since the end of a climate period called the Little Ice Age.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov: Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000

UNEP: World Glaciers Need Better Monitoring
Geneva, September 1, 2008 - Global Glaciers Changes: facts and figures The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) launched a new facts and figures report on glaciers and ice caps during a side event on 1 September 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland, during the twenty-ninth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC29).
www.climate-l.org: UNEP: World Glaciers Need Better Monitoring

Tibetan plateau melts in the face of climate change
August 5, 2008 - Climate change is affecting the Tibetan plateau, threatening regional water supplies and altering atmospheric circulation for half the planet.
The plateau is the world's third largest store of ice. But its temperature has risen by up to 0.3 degrees Celsius every ten years over the last fifty years — approximately three times the global warming rate.
www.enn.com: Tibetan plateau melts in the face of climate change

Artificial Snow Harming Alpine Environment, Researchers Warn
Vienna, April 18, 2007 - Artificial snow may help Alpine ski resorts to fight the effects of climate change, but it also creates environmental problems of its own. Is summer tourism the only thing that can save the struggling resorts?
www.spiegel.de: Artificial Snow Harming Alpine Environment, Researchers Warn

Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years
Vienna, March 29 / April 11, 2007 - A skier stands above large insulation sheets covering parts of Rettenbach glacier in the ski resort of Soelden in 2007. Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 metres (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, the country's Alpine Club said Saturday.
www.physorg.com: Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years
www.planetark.com: Melting Mountains A "Time Bomb" For Water Shortages

UNEP: Record Glacier Thinning Means No Time to Waste on Agreeing New International Climate Regime
Zürich/Nairobi, 16 March 2008 - The world's glaciers are continuing to melt away with the latest official figures showing record losses, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
UNEP: Meltdown in the mountains

Glacier ice loss at record levels / The countdown to climate chaos

The average mass balance of the glaciers with available long-term mass balance series around the world continues to decrease, with tentative figures indicating a further thickness reduction of 1.4 m w.e. during the hydrological year 2006. This continues the trend in accelerated ice loss during the past two and a half decades and brings the total loss since 1980 at more than 10.5 m w.e. Source and further explanation: World Glacier Monitoring Service

Zürich, (CH) March 14 2008 - The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown.
Average glacial shrinkage has risen from 30 centimetres per year between 1980 and 1999, to 1.5 metres in 2006.
Some of the biggest losses have occurred in the Alps and Pyrenees mountain ranges in Europe.
Experts have called for "immediate action" to reverse the trend, which is seen as a key climate change indicator.
Glaciers are a vital part of the planet's system for collecting, storing and delivering the fresh water that billions of people depend on for washing, drinking, agriculture and power. Now these once indomitable monuments are disappearing. And as they retreat, glacial lakes will burst, debris and ice will fall in avalanches, rivers will flood and then dry up, and sea levels will rise even further, say the climate experts. Communities will be deprived of essential water, crops will be ruined and power stations which rely on river flows paralysed. Is this the final countdown to climate chaos?
www.enn.com: Melting glaciers will shrink grain harvests in China and India
www.guardian.co.uk: Melting glaciers start countdown to climate chaos
www.bbc.co.uk: Glaciers suffer record shrinkage
www.independent.co.uk: Glacier ice loss at record levels
World Glacier Monitoring Service
www.ngc.com: Time-Lapse Video: Retreating Glacier

Global warming causing China's glaciers to melt quickly
Beijing, December 21, 2007 - Global warming has caused some of China's glaciers -- a source for many of Asia's greatest rivers -- to have melted by more than 18 percent over the past five years, state media reported Friday.
afp.google.com: Global warming causing China's glaciers to melt quickly

As the Alps warm up, resorts feel the chill
London / Lyon, August 1 2007 - The great winter sports meltdown has begun. The first Alpine resort has shut its doors for good and a French company that runs lifts and accomodation in several mountain stations is in bankruptcy proceedings. A disastrous winter season has taken its toll on Transmontagne, which last month sought protection from its creditors in a court in Lyons.
www.timesonline.co.uk: As the Alps warm up, resorts feel the chill

Snowless in a Warming World, Ski Resort in French Alps Bids Adieu
Abondance, (France), France July 19, 2007 — Muddy slopes, slushy peaks, unused lifts -- this town in the French Alps is living out the nightmare of many a ski resort in a century scientists say is doomed to keep getting warmer.
www.enn.com: Snowless in a Warming World, Ski Resort in French Alps Bids Adieu

Melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau

New York, July 11, 2007 - Yanshiping is the last town on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway before entering Tibet. At an altitude of 4700 metres, its landscape in summer is marked by shaggy yaks grazing in the green alpine pastures. In winter, temperatures reach as low as -20°C. It is no surprise that people welcome a warmer climate.
www.panda.org: Melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau
www.planetark.com: Tianshan Glaciers Shrinking Fast

A message from the melting slopes of Everest
London, July 8, 2007 - The sons of Hillary and Tenzing speak out about climate change: "Believe us, it's a reality".
www.independent.co.uk: Live Earth: A message from the melting slopes of Everest
www.guardian.co.uk: Climate change 'is ravaging Everest'
www.news.com.au: Mt Everest climate devastation

Mt Everest climate devastation
May 31, 2007 - A NEW picture of Mount Everest have revealed what appears to be the devastating effects of climate change on one of the world's most ecologically sensitive and important regions.
One of the world's most spectacular ice formations - the towering serac forest near Mount Everest's base camp - is rapidly shrinking as a result of global warming, Greenpeace said today.
www.news.com.au: Mt Everest climate devastation
environment.guardian.co.uk: Everest ice forest melting due to global warming, says Greenpeace

China creates Tibetan snow as glaciers melt
Beijng, April 18, 2007 — China has created artificial snow for the first time in Tibet to head off possible drought, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday, months after experts warned of melting glaciers in the Himalayan region.
www.reuters.com: China creates Tibetan snow as glaciers melt

Glacier ice loss at record levels / Countdown to climate chaos

Zürich, (CH) March 14 2008 - The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown.
Average glacial shrinkage has risen from 30 centimetres per year between 1980 and 1999, to 1.5 metres in 2006.
Related: Arctic regio is melting
Related: Antarctica is melting

Swiss resorts tackle snow decline
Berne, 05 March 2007 - Some of Switzerland's most famous ski resorts have compiled a report on how to cope with climate change. Lower lying resorts like Wengen must diversify, the report says.
news.bbc.co.uk: Swiss resorts tackle snow decline

Glacier could be gone in five years

San Francisco, February 16, 2007 - The principal glacier of the world's biggest tropical ice cap could disappear within five years as a result of global warming, one of the world's leading glaciologists predicted yesterday.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au: Glacier could be gone in five years
www.sciencedaily.com: Peruvian Glacier May Vanish In 5 Years

Melting of glaciers 'speeds up'
Scientists predict vanishing snow

London, Januari 29 2007 - Global temperatures could rise more than currently predicted by the end of this century, according to the most authoritative study of climate change so far.
Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, scientists have announced.
www.telegraph.co.uk: Scientists predict vanishing snow
www.bloomberg.com: World Ice Retreat to Spark UN Urgency, Scientist Says
news.bbc.co.uk: Melting of glaciers 'speeds up'

High ski runs fuel habitat fears
London, January 16 2007 - Skiing has a "significant" impact on Alpine birds, scientists say An increase in demand for high altitude ski runs will have a serious impact on the number and diversity of Alpine bird species, Italian scientists warn.
news.bbc.co.uk: High ski runs fuel habitat fears

Big Melt Threatens India's Water
Ahmedabad, January 11 2007 - The massive glaciers of the Himalayas, which hold one of Earth's largest reserves of snow and ice, have dwindled by one-fifth in the past 4 decades. A team of Indian geologists and remote sensing experts published the alarming news this week--a grim warning that if the trend continues, it could jeopardize the fresh water supply of more than 500 million people in India.
sciencenow.sciencemag.org: Big Melt Threatens India's Water

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