Why Do Glaciers Move

Zee News Climate Change Weekly: Satellite Data Show Slower Melting of Glaciers Health Care News James M. Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly... (read full bio) New satellite data show glacial ice is melting more slowly than previously thought. Scientists at the University of Colorado examined data from ... Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels Reuters Study: Himalayan glaciers melting more slowly than thought, but seas are still...Read Full Story

Christian Science Monitor Study: Himalayan glaciers melting more slowly than thought, but seas are still ... Christian Science Monitor A study of satellite data has found that thermal expansion and ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica account for most of the planet's rising sea levels, with melting glaciers from the Himalayas contributing less than previously thought. NASA data shows ice melt, rising seas could threaten Florida, Louisiana The State Column Scientists melt mystery over...Read Full Story

Don’t you wish we had honest news in the US?  An interesting article from the BBC: By Pallava Bagla in Delhi The UN panel on climate change warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035 is wildly inaccurate, an academic says. J Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University, says he believes the UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years. He is astonished they “misread 2350 as 2035″. The authors deny the claims...Read Full Story

When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed eternal. Decades of pollution and global warming later, modern mountaineer David Breashears has reshot the picture at the same spot -- and proved an alarming reality. Instead of the powerful, white, S-shaped sweep of ice witnessed by Mallory before he died on his conquest of Everest, the Main Rongbuk Glacier today is shrunken and...Read Full Story

Small debris-free plateau glacier with glacier lakes at Gangrinchemzoe Pass at 5,200 m, south of the main Himalayan divide, Bhutan. Photo via USGS In case you were convinced otherwise by the quasi-scandal of ‘Himalayagate’ earlier in the year: The US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier retreat in the Himalaya and it makes perfectly clear the situation, “Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water...Read Full Story