WELLINGTON, March 26 — New Zealand’s glaciers are shrinking as ice melts at an accelerating rate, a top government scientist warned yesterday after concluding a monitoring expedition in the country’s Southern Alps. The country’s climate institute conducts a yearly aerial “snowline survey”, which helps to chart how much ice the nation’s glaciers have lost. “Overall, … Read more
BISHKEK, March 9 — In the Tian-Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, villagers have made an artificial glacier to provide water for their drought-hit farms. Standing on the ice hillock, farmer Erkinbek Kaldanov said he was optimistic about harnessing nature to counteract climate change. “We won’t have any more problems with water,” said the farmer, who was … Read more
PUEBLO BELLO (Colombia), Feb 25 — In the shade of a sacred tree, Indigenous wise men chew coca leaves as they mull the threats to their home among the melting, snow-capped peaks of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains. As a “consequence of man’s actions, it is slowly warming, more every year,” one of the men says … Read more
