Sentence examples for glacier loss from inspiring English sources

Therefore glacier loss will have a considerable impact, which will be felt particularly during the dry season, when glacial water provides the majority of urban water.

Since the IPCC issued its last big report in 2007, terrestrial glacier loss and sea-level rise has dramatically accelerated; the Arctic summer sea ice losses are higher than originally projected and the last decade was the warmest since 1850... Whichever facts may be discussed, debated or distorted, we cannot ignore the reality that we must act or face frightening new impacts.

ka BP, rapid local glacier loss from the lake catchment culminated in an outburst flood.

Southeastern Alaska is a remote coastal-maritime ecosystem that is experiencing increased deposition of mercury (Hg) as well as rapid glacier loss.

Consequences of reckless land use and general drying of the continental interiors include water scarcity, lowered water quality, soil salinization from agriculture intensification, and the disappearance of lakes/rivers due to reduced snow packs, glacier loss, and aggressive fresh water extraction (Klein et al. 2012).

Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, who presented the findings here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), says his study of the vanishing Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru provides frightening new evidence of accelerating glacier loss, which he says could be a "canary in the coal mine" for intense global climate change.

While glacier losses have increased globally by about 20%, the ice sheet losses increased by as much as 600% between the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.

In East Antarctica, small glacier losses in Wilkes Land and glacier gains at the mouths of the Filchner and Ross ice shelves combine to a near-zero loss of 4 Gt yr-1.

In our data we find unambiguous evidence of anthropogenic contribution to glacier mass loss".

In the 19th and first half of 20th century we observed that glacier mass loss attributable to human activity is hardly noticeable but since then has steadily increased.

Another four indicators showed declining figures over time, again consistent with global warming: northern hemisphere snow cover (two data sets), Arctic sea ice extent (three); glacier mass loss (four); and the temperature of the stratosphere.