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Study finds Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate for 5,500 years
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 9 (ANI): At the current rate of retreat the vast glaciers, which extend deep into the heart of the ice sheet, could contribute as much as 3.4 metres to global sea-level rise over the next several centuries.
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Melting glaciers of Tibet worrying, troublesome for all regions
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], June 7 (ANI): The melting glaciers of Tibet are worrying and troublesome for all the regions that depend on it as their ultimate source of water.
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International 'Water for All' conference at the Peace Palace
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], June 3 (ANI): From Rabbis to Sufis, from Swamis to Sikhs - practising spiritual leaders from around the world gathered in The Hague, Netherlands, to draw global attention to the need to preserve the sanctity of holy water sources, to protect water bodies from polluti
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HCL and UNLEASH partner to develop solutions for Aquatic Ecosystem Conserv
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 20 (ANI/BusinessWire India): HCL Group and UNLEASH, a global innovation program for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), announced a year-long collaboration to mobilize youth and develop innovative solutions to promote aquatic ecosystem conservatio
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Pakistan's water woes to worsen with climate change
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Highlighting that the Himalayan glaciers have lost more mass since 2000 than in the entire twentieth century, a report by a Washington-based institute said that water scarcity in Pakistan is projected to worsen with climate change.
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Severe climate change in Pakistan melting glaciers, raising risk of natura
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): Climate change has emerged as a key concern in Pakistan, with the outburst of the Shishper Glacier and the flood in Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan raising concerns in the country.
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Ice flow more sensitive to stress than previously thought, finds study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [US], March 11 (ANI): A new study, led by MIT researchers, has shown that the rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated.
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Seismic study discloses main reason for rise of Patagonia as glaciers melt
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Missouri (Washington) [US], February 28 (ANI): Patagonia, which is the ground beneath ice fields in Chile and Argentina has been shifting and rising as the glaciers in the Andes mountain range have been melting for quite some time. Geologists have recently discovered a link between recent ic
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South Asia faces environmental watershed amid climate change: Experts
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 16 (ANI): South Asian region is facing an environmental watershed from rising sea levels endangering the Maldives and melting of glaciers affecting Nepal and Afghanistan to overdevelopment that threatens Tibet's vital ecosystem and destabilisation caused by climate-indu
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Study suggests melting glaciers will produce new salmon habitat
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 14 (ANI): For decades, climate change has had detrimental impacts on Pacific salmon populations. Spawning streams are overheating and droughts are drying up salmon habitats entirely, impacting many food webs from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges to the Pacific O
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Production of nuclear weapons, dumping of waste damage the environment of
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], December 3 (ANI): Tibetan glaciers are melting three times faster than the rest of the world due to global warming, production of nuclear weapons and dumping of nuclear waste in the region.
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Amid depleting groundwater table, Aquabrim is promoting water security acr
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): It is common knowledge, taught to us since school days that water covers 70 per cent of our planet, and only three per cent out of it is fresh water and two-third of it is stored in glaciers. However, the struggles of over a billion people world
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