Tag: glaciers
Global warming: melting glaciers in Tibet release 1,000 unknown species of microbes
Chinese scientists have discovered nearly 1,000 microbes, bacteria and viruses trapped in glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. The melting of the ice will gradually release these micro-organisms which are several…
Marmolada avalanche: glaciers, sentinels of global warming
A fiery cloud hurtling down the slopes of an ice volcano at 300 km/h. Such is the feeling experienced at the sight of the images of the disaster, filmed live…
Antarctica’s glaciers haven’t melted so fast in millennia
France is about to experience a heat wave – a feather of heat, say the experts – which promises to be record. Probably an effect of anthropogenic global warming. And…
Why Patagonia is rising as its glaciers melt
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] CryoSat reveals extent of melting ice The CryoSat-2 satellite has conducted various observations on glaciers in Alaska and Asia, showing massive ice loss…
This global atlas of more than 200,000 glaciers is forcing scientists to revise estimates of glacial water stocks
Mountain glaciers are essential for the availability of fresh water on our planet. Knowing the amount of ice stored is necessary to better understand their behavior and better simulate their…
Edelweiss, a fascinating mountain flower
The edelweiss flower is very special. She is complex in terms botanical since it is a flower head of flower heads. edelweiss gate different names: lion’s foot, gnaphale foot Lion,…
The Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate!
Scientists usually refer to the Himalayas as “Third pole”. Because its glaciers contain the third largest amount of ice in the world. And today, researchers are telling us that, under…
When glaciers covered Namibia
If the word “fjord” immediately makes us think of Norway, a team of geologists has just found traces of these great valleys carved by glaciers in a completely different region…
Fjords in Namibia: when glaciers covered this now arid part of the world
If the word “fjord” immediately makes us think of Norway, a team of geologists has just found traces of these great valleys carved by glaciers in a completely different region…