Khan gets through with quick combinations but can never retreat fast enough without getting caught.
In West Antarctica, more than 20percentt of grounding lines were retreating faster than 25 meters per year.
In West Antarctica, more than 20percentt of coastal glaciers were retreating faster than 25 meters, or 82 feet, per year.
He walked for hours each day and never seemed to progress, the distant mountains retreating faster than he could catch them.
Satellite observations have established that the Arctic ice is retreating faster than expected and global ocean surface wave models have to be extended to cover the polar region in the future.
Some scientists cite preliminary calculations that Bhutan's glaciers could be less sensitive to changing climate than others' yet so far glaciers here seem to be retreating faster than those in surrounding areas.
There will always be blips, and years when the ice appears to be stable or increasing, but science shows conclusively that over recent time Arctic sea ice is only going in one direction – retreating faster than anyone predicted.
A recent study by the Indian Space Research Organization, using satellite imaging to gauge the changes to 466 glaciers, has found more than a 20percentt reduction in size from 1962 to 2001, with bigger glaciers breaking into smaller pieces, each one retreating faster than its parent.
Morse Glacier is its tributary and is also retreating faster than the Muir.
Both appear as distant isles in a fog, far off, just visible, but retreating, retreating, the faster I try to paddle toward them.
But glaciers in the eastern Himalayas and the east of the Tibetan plateau are retreating fast.
