The broader impacts of climate change range from rapidly melting glaciers and rising sea levels to shifts in species ranges.
As with climate change - which has already thawed permafrost, melted sea ice, and shrunk glaciers in Alaska - carbon-caused ocean acidification will likely hit home here first.
There have been small signs of progress in recent years, including agreements to jointly monitor glaciers and study the interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean.
It dances down its canyon much as it has since the glaciers receded 10, 000 years ago—in spring as a raging, tree-felling torrent, in late summer as a spare, crystalline rivulet.
Black carbon slopping over India’s bathtub rim represents a threat to Asia’s high glaciers.
The image here illustrates how these pockets and streams of warm meltwater permeate glaciers and ice sheets.
From the polar bears of arctic Svalbard to the sea turtles of the Mediterranean, from the wild bison of Poland to the snow-covered glaciers of the Caucasus.
The 10 indicators of climate change include measurements of sea level rise taken from ships, the temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from weather balloons and field surveys of melting glaciers.
Erratics ate boulders transported by glaciers and deposited some distance from their point of origin.
We think this is one of the mechanisms that has caused these glaciers to accelerate and shed more ice.
No one quite knows why glaciers and ice shelves are melting so fast, or how a meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet covering six square kilometres could drain away in 24 hours, as it did in 2006.
Many of its glaciers are steadfastly retreating due to rising temperatures and declining precipitation.
The melting glaciers should be a similar warning of our hubris — and of the consequences that the earth will face for centuries unless we address carbon emissions today.
In the tropics numerous glaciers have disappeared altogether.
Midui glacier, located in Yupu Township, is the lowest altitude above sea level in the world. It was ranked by China National Geography Magazine as one of the top six most beautiful glaciers in China.
The glaciers give way to green-blue water, milky with the fine sediment created as the ice grinds over rock.
The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.
Icebergs are large pieces of freshwater ice that break off snow-formed ice shelves or glaciers and float in open water.
Other small, unnamed glaciers have vanished altogether.
Once the glaciers shrink, Asia's big rivers will run low or dry for part of the year and desperate battles over water are certain to ensue in a region already rife with conflict.
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