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'There’s still a choice': New Zealand's melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
The Guardian   03 August 2020   New Zealand  
Photograph: Dave Allen/Lauren Vargo
<p>New research has found extreme melting of the country&rsquo;s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating.<br />Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes close ...
Australia's Wildfires and Climate Change Are Making One Another Worse in a Vicious, Devastating Circle
TIME   07 January 2020   Australia  
A cemetery recently hit by bushfires near Mogo, New South Wales, on Jan. 5. Adam Ferguson for TIME
<p>The hot, dry conditions that primed southeastern Australia’s forest and fields for the bushfires that have been ravaging the country since September are likely to continue, scientists warn — and climate change has likely made the situation much worse.<br>Over ...
Mourning a glacier
Particle Scitech   28 November 2019   Switzerland  
<p>They came dressed in black, giving sombre speeches as others lay wreaths and flowers.<br />But this funeral march wasn&rsquo;t for a person &ndash; it was for the Pizol glacier in eastern Switzerland.<br />Scientists say the alpine ice flow has lost over ...
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Venice is flooding -- what lies ahead for its cultural and historical sites?
CNN   16 November 2019   Italy   Venice  
A man walks across the flooded St. Mark's Square on November 15, 2019. Credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE via Getty Images
<p>Images of the flooded St. Mark's Basilica in Venice have shocked many across the world this week. Since Tuesday, parts of the city were damaged by the most severe high waters Venice has seen in over half a century, with six-foot high tide levels engulfing ...
The World's Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame
livescience   07 November 2019   Alaska  
Taku Glacier in Alaska can be seen holding strong in this satellite image captured in August 2014. (Image: © NASA Earth Observatory)
<p>Massive and meaty, the Taku Glacier in Alaska's Juneau Icefield was a poster child for the frozen places holding their own against climate change. As the largest of 20 major glaciers in the region and one of the single thickest glaciers in the world (it ...
Researcher: New butterfly has clues to geology, climate
CBS News 8   21 March 2016   USA   Fairbanks, Alaska  
This undated image provided by lepidopterist Andrew Warren shows the newly discovered Tanana Arctic butterfly.
<p>FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) &mdash; A new species of butterfly could provide clues about Alaska's geological history and its changing climate, according to a University of Florida researcher.<br />Research by lepidopterist Andrew Warren suggests that the newly ...
One quarter of Alaska permafrost could melt by 2100 – US Geological Survey
The Guardian   09 December 2015   USA   Alaska  
A house has collapsed into the ground as the permafrost melts beneath it, near Portage Glacier, Alaska
<p>Study raises concerns over accelerating climate change as the icy mass under state&rsquo;s surface releases carbon into atmosphere<br />Up to a quarter of the permafrost that lies underneath the surface of Alaska could melt by the end of the century, spewing ...