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Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the world's freshwater, they freeze in the winter and melt in the summer, supplying a steady flow of water for agriculture, livestock, industry and human consumption. The white of glacier surfaces reflect sunrays which otherwise warm our planet. Without them, many of the planet's rivers would run dry shortly after the winter snow-melt. A single mid-sized glacier in high mountain environments of places like California, Argentina, India, Kyrgyzstan, or Chile can provide an entire community with a sustained flow of drinking water for generations. On the other hand, when global temperatures rise, not only does glacier ice wither away into the oceans and cease to act as water reservoirs, but these massive ice bodies can become highly unstable and collapse into downstream environments, resulting in severe natural events like glacier tsunamis and other deadly environmental catastrophes. But despite their critical role in environmental sustainability, glaciers often exist well outside our environmental consciousness, and they are mostly unprotected from atmospheric impacts of global warming or from soot deriving from transportation emissions, or from certain types of industrial activity such as mining, which has been shown to have devastating consequences for glacier survival. Glaciers: The Politics of Ice is a scientific, cultural, and political examination of the cryosphere -- the earth's ice -- and the environmental policies that are slowly emerging to protect it. Jorge Daniel Taillant discusses the debates and negotiations behind the passage of the world's first glacier-protection law in the mid-2000s, and reveals the tension that quickly arose between industry, politicians, and environmentalists when an international mining company proposed dynamiting three glaciers to get at gold deposits underneath. The book is a quest to educate general society about the basic science behind glaciers, outlines current and future risks to their preservation, and reveals the intriguing politics behind glacier melting debates over policies and laws to protect the resource. Taillant also makes suggestions on what can be done to preserve these crucial sources of fresh water, from both a scientific and policymaking standpoint.Glaciers is a new window into one of the earth's most crucial and yet most ignored natural resources, and a call to reawaken our interest in the world's changing climate. Glaciers Melt Away In Dramatic Before-And-After Photos Photographs released by the Geological Society of America show just how quickly some of the world's glaciers have receded The images were compiled as part of a New NASA imagery shows how fast glaciers are melting - CNNcom A new NASA project is tracking the movement of glaciers and ice sheets to show how fast they are melting and predict what effects this may have on global Ice melt in part of Antarctic 'appears unstoppable' NASA The six Amundsen Sea glaciers are just a portion of the entire west Antarctic ice sheet Though much of the other west Antarctic sections are grounded List of glaciers of Iceland - Wikipedia The glaciers and ice caps of Iceland cover 111% of the land area of the country (about 11400 km out of the total area of 103125 km) and have a considerable Stunning Photos Show How Glaciers Are Melting - Newser sorry to burst Climate Changers bubbles but the Glaciers have been melting for over 100000 yrs LONG before mankind had ANY real "presence" and ZERO Antarctic ice shelf could collapse with 100 years Antarctic ice shelf could collapse within 100 years scientists warn Glacier - Wikipedia In temperate glaciers snow repeatedly freezes and thaws changing into granular ice called firn Under the pressure of the layers of ice and snow above it this Large iceberg poised to break off Antarctic ice shelf As Arctic warms Canada's glaciers playing major role in sea level rise ; Antarctic sea ice hits record low early data shows ; Ice crack forces British to close C3: AGW: Glaciers Polar Ice Sheets Sea Ice Permafrost It's another day and another stubborn climate fact: global sea ice is not melting as expected by the experts This chart per the US government's funded NSIDC's In Bolivia Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change - The New Problems like those in Bolivia where retreating glaciers threaten water supplies are a focus of the climate talks
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