On AlterNet: glaciers

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Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is up to Prepare for Melting Glaciers

Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate. December 8, 2011.

A Peruvian watershed has likely passed 'peak water,' dropping river flows 30 percent. New lakes are draining the Himalaya, and say good-bye to Rocky Mountains' glaciers.

Melting Glaciers to Bring Floods and Drought

Environment News ServiceDecember 9, 2010.

The third fastest rate of loss is among glaciers in the northwest United States and southwest Canada.

Water Wars: How One City's Fight Against a Multinational Ignited a Movement Battling Water Privatization

Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet. April 19, 2010.

Cochabama, Bolivia was ground zero 10 years ago in the fight against water privatization, but the threat still persists across the world.

From Nepal to the Maldives, Eye Witness Sees Impact of Warming and Melting Glaciers

Kunda Dixit, SolveClimate. March 18, 2010.

Bursting glacial lakes, storm surges, and drought among the current dangers.

Glacier National Park May Need a Name Change Soon

Joshua Frank, AlterNet. January 21, 2010.

Glacial retreat in the the U.S: One of Montana's most majestic places will be gone in a little over two decades, and 99% of Alaska's glaciers are shrinking.

Melting Himalayan Glaciers Threaten 1.3 Billion Asians

AFPDecember 7, 2009.

Glaciers in the Himalayas provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 billion people who live downstream.

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

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

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

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

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.