Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Science News

Glaciers melting faster than predicted

Aug. 7, 2009
U.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington State and Alaska reported this week that a major meltdown is under way. A 50-year government study found that the world's glaciers are melting at a rapid and alarming rate.
Related Stories from UPI.com

Key glaciers shrinking at accelerated rate

SEATTLE, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The shrinking of three U.S. glaciers raises concerns about rising sea levels and the future availability of fresh drinking water, scientists said.

Shrinking glaciers threaten China

BEIJING, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- China’s glaciers in western Xinjiang Uygur region are shrinking alarmingly due to global and regional warming, posing a threat to the oases in the area.

600 volunteers pose naked for global cause

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Hundreds of volunteers braved the cold to pose naked on Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick.

Scientists study Andes snow spikes

BOULDER, Colo., March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying global warming are creating tiny lab versions of 12-foot snow spikes that form naturally on high mountain glaciers.

Most California glaciers shrinking

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Seven California glaciers are shrinking rapidly, according to a photographic survey conducted by a university researcher and his associates.
1 of 28
Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler