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South American Cities At Risk As Glaciers Melt
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 29th, 2006 in Climate Change, climate change impacts, melting glaciersNew research has found that Andean glaciers are melting so fast that some are expected to disappear within 15-25 years, denying major cities water supplies and putting populations and food supplies at risk in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.
Some glaciers in Colombia are now less than 20% of the mass recorded in […]
Glaciers Melting Fastest for 5,000 Years
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell June 27th, 2006 in Climate Change, Oil, Politics, climate change impacts, melting glaciersMountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of climate change, a new study has found. From the Andes to the Himalayas climate change is leading to a full-scale retreat of the world’s tropical glaciers, meaning that we might have passed the critical threshold which could see […]
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