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Climate emergency: UN declares 2025 as international year of glaciers

January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 - by cmedia

#Glaciers#UN#UNGeneralAssembly As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP). Co-facilitated by the UN Educational, Scientific …

Environment

Many New Zealand glaciers are on the verge of extinction amidst hot temperatures

March 6, 2024March 6, 2024 - by cmedia

#NewZealand, #NewZealandGlaicers, #Glaciers, #Mountain IBNS-CMEDIA: Many New Zealand glaciers are on the verge of extinction due to hotter temperatures. This is the culmination of more than 45 years of research, which is painting …

Environment

Meltwater flowing beneath Antarctic glaciers can accelerate retreat

October 28, 2023October 28, 2023 - by cmedia

#Antarctic, #AntarcticGlaciers, #Glaciers A new Antarctic ice sheet modelling study from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that meltwater flowing out to sea from beneath Antarctic glaciers is …

Science

Bacteria species found in glacial ice could pose disease risk as glaciers melt from global warming

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 - by cmedia

A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found nearly 1,000 species of bacteria in snow and ice samples collected from Tibetan glaciers. In their paper published …

Climate change / Earth / Science

New research strengthens the link between glaciers and Earth’s ‘Great Unconformity’

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 - by cmedia

#Research; #Glaciers; #EarthGreatUnconformity CMEDIA: New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet’s “Snowball …