A Melting Glacier in Tibet Serves as an Example and a Warning
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Compelling evidence from a remote glacier suggests "drastic climate change," according to scientists.
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By Daniel Howden  Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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Excerpt from report by Mwinyi Sadallah entitled "Unguja and Pemba islands threatened with..." published by Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian website on 6 June  Zanzibar government has cautioned that the islands of Unguja and Pemba are likely to be submerged due to global glacier melting.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too
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Its vastness protects it from the immediate effects of global warming, but the world's largest ice sheet could be damaged if things get worse.
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Scientists fear Greenland ice cap melting so quickly it is triggering earthquakes.
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As early as the 1970s, several theorists and climate modelers predicted that global warming would cause ice shelves in the oceans around Antarctica to melt and release glaciers.
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As scientists meet for crucial climate talks in Paris, data shows glaciers are shrinking ever faster, scientists say.
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Some Antarctic glaciers are flowing seaward five times faster than they did just two years ago, increasing concerns about rises in sea levels resulting from the warming of Earth&#39;s polar caps.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.
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There are fears for the tourist industry in Harbin, China, with the famous ice festival an apparent victim of rising temperatures.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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Scientists have found that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that most of it could be gone by the end of the century. Low-lying lands could be flooded and polar bears could go extinct, among other possibilities.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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A 30-mile maze canyons in Antarctica was carved out of bedrock by the catastrophic draining of subglacial lakes during global warming between 12 million and 14 million years ago, according to university researchers who warn a similar event today could have serious environmental consequences.
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Arctic ice is melting fast, much faster than anticipated, leading some scientists to believe we may have already passed the tipping point as far as global warming is concerned.
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PARIS -- Children in Norway plead for snow. Polar researchers describe melting glaciers. Some experts say that within this century, the Arctic may no longer be ice-locked.