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    • North Cascades glaciers victims of climate change

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      Lyman Glacier, sitting just below 8,459-foot Chiwawa Peak, is dying. Nearby, Spider Glacier is already gone. The scientist who pronounced it dead three years ago thinks one-third of the glaciers in the North Cascades - including Lyman - are doomed. Mauri Pelto says the other two-thirds may have a chance, if the world does something to stop climate change.

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      Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012'

      Posted by Jeff from Times Online

      The Quelccaya ice-cap, covering 17 square miles (44 sq km) in the Cordillera Oriental region of the Peruvian Andes, is the world’s largest tropical ice mass. Qori Kalis, its biggest glacier, has receded by at least 0.6 miles (1.1km) since 1963, when the first formal measurements were made from aerial photographs. The rate of retreat has increased

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    North Cascades glaciers victims of climate change

    Help, I’m melting!

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    12:25 pm 10/08/08
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