Officials, researchers and dozens of people have gathered on Sunday in Iceland to commemorate the meltdown of the island's first
glacier, the iconic OkjE[micro]kull
glacier that was declared dead in 2014.
In a National Science Foundation-funded project, a team of scientists, led by University of Oregon oceanographer Dave Sutherland, studied the subsurface melting of the LeConte
Glacier, which flows into LeConte Bay south of Juneau, Alaska.
"In the next 200 years all our
glaciers are expected to follow the same path," reads a plaque to be installed next month near where Okjokull, also known as Ok
Glacier, was until it was lost in 2014.
Investigation of properties of the melange and underlying waters in front of the calving front at Jakobshavn
Glacier in west Greenland via airborne probes from a hovering helicopter.
The GLOFs event happens when ice is unable to hold the restraining end moraine wall of loss material from the
glacier, often underlain by debris, and as a result the sudden releases of water from impounded lake outburst floods.
The satellite images received by Pakistan Meteorological Department show the glacial lake at Shisper
Glacier to be contracting which had mitigated the disaster risk, an official said.
The last satellite images received by Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) show the glacial lake at Shisper
Glacier to be contracting which had mitigated the disaster risk, he added.
Authors in the study predict
glacier extinction by 2100 under a high emission scenario in 21 of the 46 natural World Heritage sites where
glaciers are found.
The authors predicted
glacier extinction by 2100 under a high emission scenario in 21 of the 46 natural world heritage sites where
glaciers are currently found.
CLIMATE CHANGE could have devastating effects on vulnerable residents in the Andes mountains and the Tibetan plateau, according to researchers at Ohio State University who have been studying
glaciers in those areas for decades.
"Over 30 years suddenly almost all regions started losing mass at the same time," said lead author Michael Zemp, director of the World
Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich.