Tag: Glaciers

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  BAS: A six coins series of Antarctic glaciers named after solar system planets

  

  Pobjoy Mint has announced a brand-new 2023 two-pound coin series issued on behalf of the British Antarctic Territory. The six-coin series will feature the Antarctic glaciers named after planets of the solar system starting with the Mars Glacier.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Russian navy has discovered five new islands revealed by melting ice in the Arctic

  

  Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had discovered five new islands revealed by melting glaciers in the remote Arctic. An expedition in August and September charted the islands, which have yet to be named and were previously hidden under glaciers, said the head of the northern fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseyev.

• Monday, February 12th 2018 - 13:18 UTC

  Climate change is increasingly notorious and alarming

  

  The global climate perspective is darkened by a climate change that has accelerated in recent years and is becoming increasingly difficult to reverse. The ambitious temperature limits established in the Paris agreement are about to be overcome. Among its consequences, it is revealed that at least 26 million people will be dragged into poverty annually due to climatic causes and the retreat of the ice in the poles and mountain glaciers accelerates exponentially.

• Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 01:15 UTC

  Chile's massive 2010 earthquake caused Antarctica glaciers to calve and 'icequakes'

  

  A massive earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 caused glaciers thousands of miles away in Antarctica to calve, a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience found. Seismic surface waves radiating away from the earthquake’s epicenter traveled some 4,700 kilometers before passing through Antarctica’s ice sheets and causing small tremors, or “icequakes.”

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:59 UTC

  Mountain glaciers in the Andes are melting the fastest in 350 years

  

  Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research. Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study.

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:41 UTC

  Picture evidence of four kilometres retraction (in 80 years) of glacier in Patagonia

  

  The Argentine Patagonian glacier Ameghino has contracted almost four kilometres over the last eighty years because of global warming according to evidence from Greenpeace.

• Saturday, November 6th 2010 - 07:57 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia dams’ project becomes international environmentalist cause

  

  As criticism continues over plans to build five hydroelectric dams in the Aysén Region (XI) in Chilean Patagonia, international groups have been a constant presence in the fight against the HidroAysen project.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 19:39 UTC

  Chile surveying glaciers to gauge extent of climate change impact

  

  Academics from around the world are taking an interest in Chile’s glaciers. A team of Canadian, French and Chilean experts have been working in Punta Negra, located in the Laguna Negra section of Cajon de Maipo (south of Santiago) since 2003, following both covered glaciers and those known as rock glaciers.