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Antarctica`s Pine Island Glacier enters `irreversible` melt

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 14:14

Researchers have warned that Antarctica`s Pine Island Glacier(PIG) could now be in a state of irreversible retreat, making it an even more significant contributor to global sea level rise during the next two decades.

Continental US glaciers melting at alarming rate

Last Updated: Monday, August 20, 2012, 17:18

Montana’s Glacier National Park are melting much faster than had been predicted by scientists just a few years ago and could be gone entirely in just a decade.

Longest Himalayan glacier melting rapidly

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 16:50

Glaciers in most of the region are showing signs of shrinking, thinning, and retreating, which is giving way to a lot of melt water.

2010 is warmest ever in recorded history

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 11:10

In the first four months of 2010, an average temperature of 13.3 degrees Celsius has been recorded.

`World misled over glacier meltdown`

Last Updated: Monday, January 18, 2010, 15:53

A warning that Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 owing to climate change is likely to be retracted.