Sentence examples for glacial loss from inspiring English sources

According to Raina, the mistake made by "western scientists" is to apply the rate of glacial loss from other parts of the world to the Himalayas.

In fjords at the base of glaciers, the cold water actually acts in concert with the warm to speed up total glacial loss.

The Andean Regional Project on Adaptation to Climate Change (PRAA) says that Palca and two other townships are most reliant on meltwater for survival and the most vulnerable rural districts to glacial loss.

Glacial losses, along with the relatively warm and moist climatic conditions of the region, have increased the rate of soil development.

Mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, and the southern Andes, as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the largest proportionate glacial losses.

Between 1851 and 2010, only a quarter of glacial mass loss was due to human-induced climate change, scientists calculated.

Researchers claim that for most of the period that glaciers have been known to exist in the forest, that they have been in a state of general retreat, with glacial mass losses of as much as 25 percent between the years 1985 and 2009.

The hydrology of the lakes is controlled by the inputs of glacial meltwater and loss by sublimation of ice covers.

This phenomenon can be ascribed to either basin wide loss of glacial mass in the recent decades in the elevation range from where most of the glacial melt originates or glacier growth and stability due to either reduction in energy inputs or increase in precipitation or both at the high altitude bands wherefrom glacial melt water originates.

The melting of Alaska's glaciers currently accounts for about half the annual loss of glacial ice worldwide.

In the Everest area, the data show a marked acceleration in the loss of glacial mass between 2002 and 2005.