Melting Glaciers Said Threatening Everest
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Melting glaciers caused by climate change pose an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.
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Mount Everest should be put on a United Nations danger list as global warming threatens the Himalayan region, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
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A huge mountain glacier in the Andes could disappear in five years as a result of climate change, an academic warns.
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Rising seas, spreading deserts, intensifying weather and other harbingers of climate change are threatening cultural landmarks from Canada to Antarctica, the World Monuments Fund said Wednesday.
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Hazardous "instant" lakes and 5,000-year-old plants are just some of the side effects of rapidly melting glaciers from Peru to Tanzania.
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Switzerlandâs glaciers are melting faster than previously thought, losing almost a fifth of their total area between 1985 and 2000, experts said today.
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Antarctic glaciers are moving faster as they melt, bringing more ice into the oceans and causing sea levels to rise, according to a new study. By Stephen Leahy.
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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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Global warming is melting Ecuador's cherished mountain glaciers and could cause several of them to disappear over the next two decades, Ecuadorean and French scientists said on Wednesday.
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Glaciers are melting faster than before in some regions from the Arctic to the Alps but others are getting bigger, scientists said on Friday.
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The glaciers in West Antarctica have substantially increased their rate of shrinkage compared with the 1990s. US-Chilean teams report to the journal Science that the glaciers are losing 60% more ice into the
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The world's highest peak should put on a UN danger list to force action on global warming, campaigners say.
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A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.
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Antarctic glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the sea, according to several new studies. Warmer air and sea temperatures are blamed, and the changes are expected to cause an appreciable rise in sea levels.
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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.
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The Galapagos Islands may have to be listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the chairman of Unesco's World Heritage Committee warned yesterday.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.