Scientists unravel climate patterns from glacial debris
22 May 2012, 12:53 am
Sydney, May 22 (IANS) Scientists have developed a new diagnostic tool that will enable better understanding of global climate patterns.

Minor glacial Burst in South Iceland Volcano Katla
20 May 2012, 8:04 am
On Thursday, May 17, Sigur Rós premiered their new album over the internet. more Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow of the lambing season at Brimnes, a farm in the north of Iceland, in April 2008. Sheep farmer Arnar Gústafsson and his girlfriend Edda Björk take shifts watching over the nearly 300 ewes and helping them give birth 24/7 for about two months or until the last lamb is ...

Alleged blood diamond financiers tied to Obama Virgin Islands bundler
17 May 2012, 11:34 pm
Marjorie Rawls Roberts, a campaign fundraising bundler for President Barack Obama who lives in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is tied through several professional and personal connections to alleged blood diamond financiers.

Huge sub-glacial basin discovered under key Antarctic ice sheet could make it more unstable
9 May 2012, 6:16 pm
A huge sub-glacial basin the size of Wales has been discovered under one of the key Antarctic ice sheets that could make it more unstable and liable to disintegration, a study has found.

Visiting snowball Earth
8 May 2012, 12:15 pm
( Geological Society of America ) Ancient glacial deposits in Norway (snowball Earth-aged Smalfjord and the younger Mortensnes formations) are superbly documented and illustrated in this comprehensive eight-day field guide. This guide was written specifically for use in the field, and, as authors A.H.N. Rice, Marc B. Edwards, and T.A. Hansen note, "is not necessarily fully understandable without ...

GreenTalk: glacial lake bursts in Nepal, flood kills at least 13 people
7 May 2012, 2:44 am
Climate change and melting glaciers leave mountain dwellers at risk Jason Overdorf A glacial lake burst Saturday in the Nepalese Himalayas, causing a flash flood that killed at least 13 people and left 60 more unaccounted for, PTI reports . Another signal of the potentially deadly mounting cost of climate change, the flash flood, like several other glacial lakes that have burst in China, is ...

13 killed, 60 missing in glacial lake burst in Nepal
5 May 2012, 7:58 am
A glacial lake burst on Saturday in the high Himalayan region in northwestern Nepal sweeping away houses, farms, cattles near the tourist resort of Pokhara, killing at least 13 people and leaving 60 missing, including three foreign trekkers.

10 killed, 60 missing as glacial lake burst in Nepal
5 May 2012, 7:06 am
A glacial lake burst today in the high Himalayan region in northwestern Nepal sweeping away houses, farms, cattles near the tourist resort of Pokhara, killing 10 people and leaving 60 missing, inc...

Himalayan glacial lakes' size growing: Study
1 May 2012, 2:46 am
Lanzhou (China), May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): The number of glacial lakes in the Himalayas has reduced in recent years, but their total area has increased, a research revealed here on Tuesday.

The cold truth: Marblehead man’s MIT exhibit illuminates glacial melting
25 April 2012, 4:22 pm
After 30 years climbing majestic Himalayan peaks, mountaineering filmmaker David Breashears of Marblehead has seen the vast glaciers that feed Asia’s rivers melting beneath his boots. The Emmy Award-winning cinematographer is showing his revelatory photographs in a cautionary exhibition at the MIT Museum that documents dramatic glacial melt in one of the Earth’s most sensitive environmental ...