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Western Canada’s Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low

November 8, 2007 – 6:36 am

ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming. Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in Earth & Climate, Environmental Issues, Ice Ages, Ice sheet, global warming | Comments (0)

Live Earth: Scientists set to Rock Antarctica to Deliver on Gore’s Promise for Music on Every Continent

June 27, 2007 – 12:26 pm

TreeHuggerThe band Nunatak, the Greenlandic word that means an exposed summit of a ridge mountain or peak within an ice field or glacier, will be rocking the ice 7.7.07 for their 17 on-site colleagues and also for, well, the rest of the world. Former Vice President Gore personally reached out to the band, not that [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in Al Gore, live earth | Comments (0)