Sentences with phrase «part by glaciers»
Roughly 210 million people live in the region, and another 1.3 billion people who live downstream depend on rivers fed in part by glaciers and mountain snowpack.
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As glaciers in most parts of the Himalayas melt, floods caused by the bursting of rapidly expanding glacial lakes pose an increasing risk to mountain communities.
Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.
He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.
Even China's efforts to combat those rising concentrations — in part by switching from burning coal to capturing the power latent in rivers like the Yangtze — falter in the face of global warming, as a result of less water in those rivers due to drought and the dwindling glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau.
These glaciers typically move via basal sliding or subglacial deformation under wet (warm)- based ice in the accumulation area, but only by internal ice deformation in the colder parts.
The Driftless Zone, a portion of western and southwestern Wisconsin along with parts of adjacent Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, was not covered by glaciers.
The tour is laid out in three themed, two - hour documentary film blocks, featuring Ice Call by Sam Favret, showing a surreal landscape inside glaciers, to the hilarious Owl Dance - Off Part II, the much - anticipated follow - up to wildlife photographer Megan Lorenz's award - winning Internet sensation that made stars of two burrowing owls.
While BMW was busy waxing their bobsleds at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the engineering team at Volkswagen was making history by crossing the treacherous glacier - covered Sredinny Range as part of a Polar Expedition to promote the Olympics.
A typical example is the Kilimanjaro glacier, where the shrinking is largely due to dryer air, caused in part by deforestation at the foot, in part also by general faster air circulation, which dried the upper air in the tropics.
Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.
More broadly, the research, by Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, reinforces the case that a large part of the climate challenge is not out in the world of eroding glaciers and limited energy choices, but inside the human mind.
Aellen is part of a team of 15 scientists at the school who comprise the World Glacier Monitoring Service, an effort funded by the United Nations to monitor changes in glaciers and assess their meaning.
Many glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are held - back by ice - shelves that have frozen across parts of the coast.
According to a report in Nature News, glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating faster than in any other part of the world and they could disappear completely by 2035.
But the world was only about 4 °C to 7 °C cooler, on average, during the last ice age, when large parts of Europe and the United States were covered by glaciers.
«Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world... the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»
Which is part of the reason they come out with stupid comments like the end of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, but on second thought, maybe we meant 2350... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IPCC-retracts-2035-alarm-on-Himalayan-glacier-melt/articleshow/5482397.cms Releasing this much carbon is not a good thing, but when you look at the larger picture, our increasing carbon in the atmosphere from 0.032 % to 0.039 % is small beer compared to deforestation and our increasing global population.
«Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high,» says the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI) in its recent study on Asian gGlaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high,» says the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI) in its recent study on Asian glaciersglaciers.
The ice sheet in West Antarctic is losing ice at a faster rate than any other part of the continent and some glaciers are receding annually by over one metre.
Then you show a bunch of pictures of glaciers melting, although the reader can not tell from looking that the glacier is melting because too many of us are driving SUVs or because solar activity in the last part of the 19th century heated up the earth by a degree or two, and the icecaps are still melting as a result.
If your faith in today's scientific establishment was shaken recently by successive waves of fraud on the part of climate scientists — from systematically suppressing evidence of global cooling, to attempting to erase the Middle Ages, to falsely claiming the Himalayan glaciers were rapidly melting — get ready for more scientific corruption, a lot more.
In many rivers fed by glaciers, there will be a «meltwater dividend» during some part of the 21st century, due to increasing rates of loss of glacier ice, but the continued shrinkage of the glaciers means that after several decades the total amount of meltwater that they yield will begin to decrease (medium confidence).
While glaciers melt under the pressure of greenhouse gas emissions, Kearney is determined to reduce her part in climate change by offsetting all Olympic training travel with NativeEnergy.
The edge of the Thwaites glacier [credit: NASA photograph by Jim Yungel] This BBC report seems unaware that a study in 2014 found that parts of the Thwaites Glacier are subject to melting due to subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal «hotspots».
«Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate,» according to a 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
«Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high.»
If countries instead abide by the pledges to cut carbon emissions after 2020 that they each made voluntarily ahead of the Paris climate summit, the average temperature will likely go up by at least two degrees Celsius, a less - than - catastrophic situation that could «still destroy most coral reefs and glaciers and melt significant parts of the Greenland ice cap, bringing major rises in sea levels,» according to The Guardian.
and «Brunstein's article on Almagre (AAR 1996 by recollection) reported that trapper records said that the 1840s had huge snowfall» What puzzles me was the statement in the beginning: «the tremendous growth pulse in the surviving part of the trunk immediately following the glacier scar.»
Each is located in a different part of Greenland and thus are also affected differently by their latitude, oceanic currents (for the marine - terminating glaciers), weather and climatic patterns.
Moreover, Himalayan glaciers are retreating, even if they're not doing so faster than glaciers in other parts of the world, and even if they won't be gone by 2035.
Some new research done by a team of French scientists confirms that glaciers in the Karakoram range (west of the Himalayan range and often mentioned as part of the same set of mountains) are bucking the worldwide trend of glaciers retreating.
The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.
A week after it emerged that some off - hand speculative remarks to a journalist regarding all Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035 made it into the 2007 IPCC report like they had been in peer - reviewed literature, the world's highest climate change organization will review the disputed claim.The IPCC report says: «Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rateglaciers melting by 2035 made it into the 2007 IPCC report like they had been in peer - reviewed literature, the world's highest climate change organization will review the disputed claim.The IPCC report says: «Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rateGlaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»
Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.
Marshall's work is part of the seasonal and annual tracking of glacier mass balance by the federal government to help determine future water supply in major rivers.
The controversy centers on a paragraph in Chapter 10 of the 2007 report which states: «Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.
The ongoing melting of glaciers will cause an elevation in sea level, directly impacting the Hudson River estuary — that part of the river influenced by the Atlantic's tides.