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As Glaciers Melt, A Lake in Nepal Fills Up
Looking south on the way down from Island Peak (6189 m / 20305 ft), also known as Imja Tse, in Nepal Himalaya. Ama Dablam is to the right and Imja Tsho (lake) is down in the middle.(Kiril...
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As Peru’s Glacier Vanish, Villagers Appeal To The Gods
Peruvian villagers trek up Peru’s Mount Hualca Hualca to make an offering to a mountain lord. (Photo: Astrid Stensrud) In October 2011, while I was conducting ethnographic research on water and climate...
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Earthquakes Rattling Glaciers, Boosting Sea Level Rise
An iceberg from the Helheim Glacier in calm waters, Sermilik fjord, East Greenland.© Mads & Trine Talk of earthquakes likely calls to mind giant fissures opening up along the earth’s crust, the...
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Mapping South Asia’s Glaciers
Recent research has provided valuable information on glacier processes in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) mountains of South Asia, a region often called the “Third Pole” because it contains the largest...
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The IPCC’s Himalayan Error Sheds Light on Peer Review
Ngozumpa Glacier, Nepal Himalayas (credit: McKay Savage/Flickr) The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , released in 2007, contains an error regarding the...
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Intimacy and Expertise: A Conversation with Antarctic Anthropologist Jessica...
Glaciologists Doing What They Do When most people think about Antarctica, they do not think about people. That is not the case for Jessica O’Reilly, assistant professor of international studies at...
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Ice loss surpasses poaching as largest threat to Barents Sea polar bear
Prior to the 1970s, hunting decimated polar bear populations across the Arctic. The international community has made strides in protecting the iconic species from over-harvesting through conservation...
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Life on the Rocks: Climate Change and Antarctic Biodiversity
By now, it’s a familiar story: climate change is melting glaciers in Antarctica, revealing an increasing proportion of ice-free terrain. The consequences of this melt are manifold, and one may be...
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IPCC Announces Details of a Report Chapter on High Mountains
On 17 August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced the list of experts it has invited to work on a major document, the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing...
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A third of Asia’s glaciers could be gone by 2100
Peaks of the Tien Shan, one of many regions in Asia’s high mountains with predictions of massive glacier loss by the end of the century (Source: NASA). Asia will likely lose at least one-third of its...
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Future Sea-Level Rise and the Paris Agreement
The signing of the Paris Agreement in December 2015 signaled the world’s renewed focus on limiting global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius, with a goal to lessen the adverse impacts of...
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As Glaciers Melt, A Lake in Nepal Fills Up
Looking south on the way down from Island Peak (6189 m / 20305 ft), also known as Imja Tse, in Nepal Himalaya. Ama Dablam is to the right and Imja Tsho (lake) is down in the middle.(Kiril...
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IPCC Report is Now Open for Comment
An Opportunity to Offer Comments on an IPCC Report Currently in Development Readers of GlacierHub, and other individuals and organizations as well, have the opportunity to provide comments on the...
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Glacier Researchers Gather at IPCC Meeting in China
Lead Author Meeting of IPCC Report Held in China Qilian Mountains, with the Tibetan Plateau in the distance (source: Susie Crate/Facebook). Researchers from several countries gathered in July to...
View ArticleGlacierHub News Report 08:23:18
GlacierHub News Report 08:23:18 The GlacierHub News Report is a bi-monthly video news report that features some of our website’s top stories. This week’s newscast is special because managing editor Ben...
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New IPCC Report Offers New Data, Stern Warnings, Hope
On 8 October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced the final approval of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5˚C (SR1.5). This report presents the results of a thorough...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: Comments from IPCC Chair on SR1.5
This week’s Video of the Week follows the recent release of the IPCC’s special report, SR1.5, on warming impacts of 1.5 degrees Celsius. This short but meaningful video features comments from head of...
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Glaciers Feature Prominently at COP24 in Poland
From 2-14 December 2018, 197 countries gather in Katowice, Poland, for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or better known as COP24. During...
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Increased Focus on Mountains in the IPCC’s AR6 Report
On January 20th through the 25th, over 250 climate experts gathered in Durban, South Africa for Working Group II’s First Lead Author Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth...
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Kathmandu Event Highlights Deepening Interest in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region
On 17 July, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) hosted an event at its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal for a group of about 70 officials, authors, and staff from the...
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