Glaciers in Chile lose volume!

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, 7 April 2011
Glaciers in Chile lose volume!

http://www.dailynews.lk.nyud.net:8090/2011/04/07/z_GLO-p21-Glaciers.jpg

San Rafael Glacier in Patagonia, one of the 270 glaciers
included in this study, has retreated about 8km since the
peak of the ‘Little Ice Age’

Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research.

Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study.

They mapped changes in 270 of the largest glaciers between Chile and Argentina since the “Little Ice Age”.

Studies showed glaciers have lost volume on average “10 to 100 times faster” in the last 30 years.

More:
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/04/07/wld32.asp