Getting warmer and faster: Antarctic glaciers
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Blog: British research shows glaciers moving faster than ever.
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Just as explorers once searched the vast reaches of Africa's Nile River for clues to its behavior and ultimate source, modern-day scientists are searching Antarctica for its hidden lakes and waterways that can barely be detected at the surface of the ice sheet.
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Description: New evidence is reported that rising global temperatures could have rapid effects on the Antarctic ice pack and on ocean levels.
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An expert frets about the accelerating retreat of glaciers from mountain peaks. With rates up to 60 meters per year, is it time to redefine the term "glacial"?
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Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart.
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An ambitious two-year effort aims to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
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Our correspondent David Shukman flies with a Nasa team as it monitors the state of Antarctica's glaciers.
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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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British scientists find global warming is melting the ice of Antarctica faster than  previously thought.
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Compelling evidence from a remote glacier suggests "drastic climate change," according to scientists.
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Climate scientist Michael Mann runs down the list of bad global warming news: The world is spewing greenhouse gases at a faster rate. Summer Arctic sea ice is at record lows. The ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are melting quicker than expected.
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Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists reported on Friday.
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The Larsen B ice shelf probably blocked the glaciers&#39; progress before its collapse in 2002, but now they are able to deposit their loads more freely.
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The collapse of two Antarctic ice shelves is offering scientists a glimpse of rarely seen species&#8212;and at how pristine ocean ecosystems respond to sudden change.&#149; See photos >>
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Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
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Scientists find four big lakes under the ice of Antarctica which may help explain how ice flows into the sea.
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Fifty years of study on Alaska's McCall glacier have provided scientists with a timeline of local climatic change.