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  Venezuela becomes first nation to lose all glaciers after last one downgraded to 'ice field'

  World | May 10, 2024 18:00 IST

  Venezuela had six glaciers spanning 10 square km in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range but lost five of them by 2011. Climate scientists found that the last Humboldt glacier shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares, thus downgrading it from a glacier to an ice field.

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  Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier' will melt faster than thought

  World | April 13, 2021 8:33 IST

  Among other things, it measured the strength, temperature, salinity and oxygen content of the ocean currents under the glacier and found variations.   

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  Uttarakhand tragedy: 2019 study warned Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming speed

  India | February 07, 2021 20:47 IST

  A part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday, leading to massive floods, recalling a 2019 study that warned about the dangers of climate change and said Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast since the start of this century.

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  Glaciers in Jammu and Kashmir melting at 'significant' rate, suggests study

  Science | September 08, 2020 13:22 IST

  Glaciers in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are melting at a "significant" rate, according to a first-of-its-kind study that used satellite data to find that over 1,200 glaciers in the Himalayan region saw an annual reduction in mass of 35 centimetres (cm) on average between 2000 and 2012. 

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  World glaciers melting faster than ever

  World | August 04, 2015 10:54 IST

  London: The intense ice loss of the past two decades has resulted in a strong imbalance of glaciers in many regions of the world, says an alarming study, indicating that glaciers will suffer further ice

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  Over 70 percent of Everest glacier's volume may be lost by 2100: Study

  World | May 27, 2015 12:42 IST

  New Delhi: Over 70 percent of the glacier volume in the Mount Everest region in the Himalayas could be lost in 85 years if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a new paper suggests. It

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  Glaciers in Tibet retreating at alarming rate

  World | April 23, 2015 14:14 IST

  Beijing: China's glaciers particularly those in Tibet have retreated by about 7,600 square kms - nearly 18 per cent - in the last 65 years and even the thick ice around the base camp of

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  Sea levels may rise with global warming

  World | July 16, 2013 12:46 IST

  Washington, July 16: Sea levels may rise by about 2.3 meters for each degree celsius of global warming within the next 2,000 years, an international team of researchers has said.While thermal expansion of the ocean