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On AlterNet: glaciers

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "glaciers"

How Climate Change is Transforming Our Nation's Treasured Parks

How Climate Change is Transforming Our Nation's Treasured Parks

Joan Hamilton, Sierra Club. September 9, 2009.
With global warming upon us, scientists may need to use these sanctuaries as laboratories in which to play Noah, if not god.

Glaciers Go, Leaving Drought, Conflict and Tension in Andes

Glaciers Go, Leaving Drought, Conflict and Tension in Andes

Barbara Fraser, Daily Climate. May 20, 2009.
In a dry land where almost everyone has their eye on their uphill neighbor's water, there is already conflict in the Andes.

Retreat of Andean Glaciers Foretells Global Water Woes

Retreat of Andean Glaciers Foretells Global Water Woes

Carolyn Kormann, Yale Environment 360. April 11, 2009.
Bovlia will soon be paying a disproportionately high price from global warming: the rapid loss of glaciers and a decline in vital water supplies.

Climate Change Is Already Affecting the West's Water

Climate Change Is Already Affecting the West's Water

Bob Burnett, Huffington Post. August 14, 2008.
By 2020 Glacier National Park will be "Puddles National Park" and the rest of the west won't be much better off. So where's the concern?

Diminshing Latin American Glaciers Threaten Water Supply

Diminshing Latin American Glaciers Threaten Water Supply

Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. April 10, 2008.
Rivers fed by melting glaciers across Latin America may soon dry up, forcing changes on the people who depend upon them.