Greenland Glaciers Are Slowing Down, Not Accelerating
	There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has been actually slowing down its speeding motion towards the water, by as much as 10 percent. Most of the previous ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DDT Toxin Makes a Comeback
	Indeed, DDT has been banned in some countries for more than three decades now, but that doesn't mean that several million tons of toxic chemicals just disappeared into thin air during this time. Instead DDT insecticide has been frozen and stored in the Antarctic glaciers, which by the way are now slowly melting away. Although this means that Adélie penguins have been exposed to the action of DDT for some time, the concentration of tox ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mars Could Have Been Through Ice Ages
	Mars is often viewed as a planet that has been climatically active in a distant past, having flowing water on its surface as early as 3.5 billion years ago. At some point in time around this date, Mars' clime took a turning point rendering it much as the way we see it today. New discoveries made with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that Mars' clime may have been in fact much more active than previously thought, a ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This is What Happens With Earth's Glaciers
	In small amounts ice is a solid, brittle, crystalline material. But in ticker layers, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the part situated underneath behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow, so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slopes. That's why a glacier behaves like a slow flowing ice river. Glaciers form in the high peak of the mountains, in the debris-filled valleys. The snowfall fro ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 17:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

African Mountain Glaciers Will Be Gone in 30 Years
	Ancient Greeks and Egyptians talked about the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the Nile River. Indeed, the Ruwenzori Mountains, located between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, represent the highest water source for the Nile (with peaks over 16,000 ft (4,900 m)) and one of the few equatorial mountains with an ice cap. But now WWF and National Geographic signals that the mountains have lost 50% of their ice crown in the last ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Clime and Relief
	Glaciers appear only on high mountains and around the Poles. Through their movements, the ice blocks shape distinct relief forms, like U-shaped valleys, while the eroded matter is deposed as moraines. At the edge of glacial regions, there can be found periglacial areas. Temperatures are still low, but with a slightly higher average annual value. A relief form that is typical for these areas is represented by the dome-shaped hills called pi ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kilimanjaro, The Highest African Mountain: Records and Puzzles
	It is considered the roof of Africa. When German missionaries reported in 1848 a snow-covered mountain in equatorial Africa, everybody in Europe laughed. But later expedition confirmed this. Kilimanjaro is located in northeastern Tanzania, close to the border with Kenya, standing at only 3 degrees south of Equator (330 km). Kilima Njaro means Shining Mountains in Swahili language. Masai people call it Oldoinyo Oibor (White Mountain). ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paradoxes of Global Warming: Greenland is Going Up!
	If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or not), other islands have a different faith: Greenland is actually going upwards, rising up with 4 cm (1.6 in) annually, al ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New "Mistery" Transcend T.sonic 840 Looks Great in Black and Jams For a Whole Day!
	Transcend, known especially as a leading company in flash memory products, has recently announced the latest of its MP3 players, dubbed T.sonic 840. Regarding the player’s design, apparently, the manufacturers chose a successful combination between a mirrored surface and a cold metal body that makes the player great to use in the hot summer. Even though its shape is kind of a bulky one, it still manages to look like a classy device, fo ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 02:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Over 300 Glaciers Are Melting Faster in Antarctica
	The Arctic is said to get warmer than Antarctica. Still, hundreds of Antarctic glaciers are melting faster with the global warming, as found by a new satellite study. The faster flow of the glaciers into the ocean could rise the sea levels higher and faster than currently forecast. Satellite pictures of over 300 glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula revealed their speed was 12 % quicker in 2003 than in 1993. "It is i ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Did Ötzi, the 'Iceman' Mummy, Die?
	This is the oldest European mummy, 5,300 years old, and the oldest ice mummy worldwide. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and named after the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was found. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier offered a lot of data about the European Copper Age. Ever since this discovery, everybody has wanted to know why the Ice ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Glaciers
	In small amounts, ice is just a solid, brittle, crystalline material; but when an ice layer surpasses 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displaces on a slope. For a glacier to appear, the snowfall from the past winter must overcome the melting or evaporation (the so-called ablation). By the melting and re-freezing of t ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

An Ice Chunk The Size of Manhattan Is Wandering in Northern Canada
	In 2006, NASA MODIS Terra satellite discovered the Alyes Ice Island, off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, at about 800 km (497 miles) from the North Pole. An US-Canadian team has installed this week beacons on the massive ice island to track down its movements through the Arctic Ocean in Canada's far north. The Alyes Ice Island, 16 km long and 5 km wide (10x3 miles), broke from Ellesmere Island, ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's a Mountain Glacier?
	We consider ice just a solid, brittle, crystalline material because we use to see it in small amounts. But when ice forms a ticker layer, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slope. This behavior characterizes any land glacier, from the past or the present. For a glacier to emerge, the snowfall fro ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 11:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tibet's Glaciers Are Going Away
	At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the coldest points, like around the Nojin Kangtsang glacier between the regional capital of Lhasa and Mount Everest, which reac ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia