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Climbers celebrate Everest 70th anniversary amid melting glaciers, rising temperatures

May 26, 2023989 Views

As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and snow melting, and weather getting harsh and unpredictable on the world’s tallest mountain. Since the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) mountain peak was first scaled by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953, thousands of climbers have reached the peak and hundreds of lost their lives. A security person stands guard in front of a statue of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary at the tourism board in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) The deteriorating conditions on Everest are raising concerns for the mountaineering community and the people whose live...

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Mount Everest is losing snow

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May 21, 2023903 Views

Britain’s record holding climber says highest peak is now 'dry, more rocky' Mount Everest is losing snow and turning "dry and rocky", British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears to be drying now. British climber Kenton Cool, 49, waves towards the media personnel, upon his arrival at the airport, as he returns after completing his 17th ascent of Mount Everest, which is the most by any foreign climber, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar "If you go back to early mid-2000s there used to be a lot of snow," he told Reuters in an interview in ...

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Global temperature likely to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius for the first time in 5 years

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May 17, 20231038 Views

For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. This does not mean the world would cross the long-term warming threshold of 1.5C above preindustrial levels set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But a year of warming at 1.5C could offer a glimpse of what crossing that longer term threshold, based on the 30-year global average, would be like. FILE PHOTO: The sun rises above the Atlantic Ocean as waves crash near beach goers walking along a jetty, Dec. 7, 2022, in Bal Harbour, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) With a 66% chance of temporarily reaching 1.5C by 2027, "it's the first time in history that it's...

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Fears mount for the Arctic as cooperation with Russia stalls

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May 9, 2023932 Views

For nearly three decades, the Arctic Council has been a successful example of post-Cold War cooperation. Its eight members, including Russia and the United States, have cooperated on climate-change research and social development across the ecologically sensitive region. Now, a year after council members stopped working with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and as Norway prepares to assume the chairmanship from Moscow on May 11, experts are asking whether the polar body's viability is at risk if it cannot cooperate with the country that controls over half of the Arctic coastline. An ineffective Arctic Council could have dire implications for the region's environment and its 4 million inhabitants who face the effects of melting sea ice and the interest of non-Arctic countr...

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Vanishing glaciers threaten alpine biodiversity

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May 6, 2023967 Views

Researchers caution that as a result of climate change causing glaciers to melt at an unparalleled pace, invertebrates inhabiting the chilly meltwater streams of the European Alps will encounter extensive loss of their natural habitats. Numerous species are expected to become constrained to frigid environments that will endure solely at higher elevations in the mountains, and these regions will also potentially experience stress from the ski and tourism sectors or from the creation of hydroelectric facilities. The investigation, co-headed by the University of Leeds and University of Essex, urges conservationists to contemplate novel measures for safeguarding aquatic biodiversity. Invertebrates - key role in ecosystems The invertebrate species, encompassing stoneflies, midg...

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Farms, wildlife at risk as Spanish wetland shrinks

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May 4, 2023934 Views

Spain's Donana wetland has been a rich farming area for decades and a wildlife haven for centuries, but climate change is drying it out and has set regional and national authorities on a collision course over how to safeguard its future. Scientists, meanwhile, say the water needs of the farmers who grow thousands of tonnes of red berries per year are making the problem worse. An irrigation water pond is pictured next to strawberry greenhouse farms near the Donana National Park, in Almonte, Spain April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo The Donana national park lies atop a 2,700-square km (1,040 square mile) underground water reserve, one of the largest of its kind in Europe and an area almost twice the size of London. Its beautiful lagoons are being depleted by a long drought ...

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Earth in hot water? Worries over sudden ocean warming spike

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April 28, 2023798 Views

The world’s oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming. Some researchers think the jump in sea surface temperatures stems from a brewing and possibly strong natural El Nino warming weather condition plus a rebound from three years of a cooling La Nina, all on top of steady global warming that is heating deeper water below. If that’s the case, they said, record-breaking ocean temperatures this month could be the first in many heat records to shatter. From early March to this week, the global average ocean sea surface temperature jumped nearly two-tenths of a degree Celsius (0.36 degree Fahrenheit), according to the University of M...

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Lack of snow condemns Italy’s Po to a desperately dry summer

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April 24, 2023745 Views

Italy’s largest river is already as low as it was last summer, with the winter snow fields that normally save it from drying up over the warmer months having receded by 75%, according to the Bolzano climate and environment agency. It’s already causing some reliant on the Po to course correct. Boats lie on the dried shipyard on the Po River in Torricella, near Cremona, Italy, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) “In a few days I will have to cancel all bookings for our Po River cruises because of the shallow water,” said captain Giuliano Landini as he shook his head, his arms stretched wide on the command deck of the Stradivari ship docked under the Boretto bridge and surrounded by long stretches of sand. His 60-meter (196-foot) long vessel used to transport up to 4...

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Rewilding animals could be key for climate

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April 9, 2023855 Views

# A report published in Nature Climate Change suggests that trophic rewilding, or restoring and protecting the functional roles of animals in ecosystems, is an overlooked climate solution. # Reintroducing just nine species or groups of species (including African forest elephants, American bison, fish, gray wolves, musk oxen, sea otters, sharks, whales and wildebeest) would help limit global warming to less than the 1.5°C (2.7°F) threshold set by the Paris Agreement, according to the report. # Animals play a significant role in how much carbon plants, soil and sediments can capture, as they redistribute seeds and nutrients and disturb soil through digging, trampling, and nest-building. # The report emphasizes the need for a change in mindset within science and policy to take adva...

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Italy’s ski industry fires cannon against climate change

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April 4, 2023854 Views

Monte Cimone, a popular ski resort in Italy's Apennine Mountains, invested 5 million euros in artificial snowmaking before the winter season in an attempt to stave off the impact of global warming. The money was largely wasted. The snow cannon proved useless because the water droplets they fire into the air need freezing weather for them to fall to the ground as snow, and until mid-January the temperature never fell below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). "The ski-lifts were closed, the ski instructors and seasonal workers had nothing to do and we lost 40% of our revenue for the whole season," said Luciano Magnani, head of the local consortium of ski tourism operators. "It was the first time in 40 years that we were closed for the Christmas holidays." Skiers ride on an artificial ...