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Scientists believe that a collision between an iceberg and a glacier in the Antarctic will allow them to gather new information, as it provides them with access to an area of seabed previously unseen.
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Cold glaciers are often associated with far away northern areas. But within 3 hours' drive on the Sea-to-Sky Hwy 99 up from Vancouver, their spectacular beauty is within the easiest to imagine reach.
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Argentina has passed a landmark law that seeks to protect environmentally sensitive glaciers by imposing strict limits on mining. The Bill, passed by the Senate on Thursday last, prohibits mining near glaciers along Argentina's 5,000 km border with Chile.
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Researchers have been watching the environment change in Greenland for some time. Now, however, they've noted the largest ice sheet in 50 years is breaking off from the island and moving south where it could interfere with shipping.
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Even as scientists and environmentalists fret over the continued melting of Greenland’s glaciers, at least one person has seen an opportunity for money to be made.
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In Peru, at least three people were swept away by a 23m tsunami wave that was caused after a large chunk of the glacier broke off and plunged into a lake in the Andes mountain range.
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A report that issued a warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt and vanish by 2035 due to climate change is likely to be retracted after blunders were found by the United Nations body that issued it in the first place.
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Temperature change in the Arctic is happening at a greater rate than other places in the Northern Hemisphere, and this is expected to continue in the future.
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Canadian and American researchers are watching the Alsek River, worried that a moving glacier nearby could block the river and potentially flood a village in Alaska.
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New studies have found that most of the Greenland's glaciers are melting at an increasing rate. Even glaciers in Northern Greenland which seemed to be immune from global warming have started developing huge cracks.
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The glaciers still clinging to life in the heart of Africa
In Argentina, a major portion of the Perito Moreno glacier has collapsed.
Police in Chile arrest a man suspected of stealing blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier.
Some glaciers in the mighty Karakoram range are defying the global trend and getting slightly thicker, researchers find.
Earth's glaciers are seriously out of balance with the global climate and are already committed to losing almost 40% of their volume, a study reports.
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