Melting glaciers

Mountain glaciers found to be melting at record rates...

"The glaciers have lost a lot less ice up until 30 years ago than had been thought. The real killer is that the rate of loss has gone up 100 times above the long-term average. It's scary," said Professor Glasser, who carried out the study with the University of Exeter and Stockholm University.

Greenland Melt Accelerating

The rate of ice loss on the continent of Greenland is accelerating, adding to sea level increase. Evidence for this comes from NASA's Grace satellite, monitoring the situation. If Greenland lost all it's ice, sea levels would rise by a cataclysmic 7 metres globally.

No Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ice cores reveal that melting on the mountain is unprecedented in the last 12,000 years, and the ice cap could be gone within 20 years. The thining is even faster than when a 300-year drought took hold some 4,200 years ago.

Greenland to prosper as it's ice melts?

As Greenland's glaciers melt into the sea, raising sea levels, the continent of Greenland actually rises as the weight of the ice is released. Untold riches could lie underneath, waitng for the Greenlanders to exploit....

Glaciers melt as global warming takes hold

Three glaciers that have been monitored by the US Geological Survey prove to have been melting since 1958 as a result of Global Warming...