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 Hundreds of millions of people will be affected by melting glaciers and reduced snow-covered as a result of climate change, the Programmed has warned the UN Environment Programmed (UNEP) in a new report.
“Only the loss of snow and glaciers in the mountains of Asia would affect approximately 40% of world population,” says the report “Global Outlook for Snow and Ice ‘, presented at Nairobi, UNEP headquarters.
But other areas like the Pyrenees, the Alps or the Andes, will also be severely damaged by the impact, it added, which analyzes current trends and possible future development of ecosystems of ice and snow as glaciers, rivers and lakes ice cream.
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 According to a team of U.S. researchers, the icebergs around Antarctica, far from being sterile ice cubes, are full of activity that may have an important role in combating climate change.
Small marine ecosystems that form around the ice blocks with melted water mixed with sea water, can serve to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and plunging into the ocean, since the algae absorb carbon -releasing oxygen through photosynthesis and then pass the food chain. They become a focal point for small fish, algae and even birds.
One of the main consequences of climate change has been the increase in temperature, which has led to multiply the appearance of icebergs in the southern waters, chunks of ice ranging from a few inches square that protrude from the surface to others as large as European countries.
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 Spain lead for the first time a research project of the European Space Agency, developed by the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, from space to measure the salinity of sea and soil moisture, and improving knowledge on climate change .
The announcement of this project, called SMOS, has coincided with the launch of SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre, who will be dealing with process data from the mission and coordinate the scientific activity of the fifty participating Spanish.
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 The glaciers did not get to go away during one of the periods of greatest warming has been on the planet, which took place during the Upper Cretaceous between 93.5 and 89.3 million years.
The existence of ice sheets, which appeared and disappeared in a short period of time, at a time when the temperature was between 6 and 12 degrees Celsius higher than now, contradicts the general assumption that the poles did not have ice at the time of extreme heat, which is suspected it would happen again in the future if left unchecked, the current global warming.
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 Venezuelan glaciers could disappear within just 13 years because of global warming trends continue today. In recent times, there has been a decline rate of nine vertical meters per year.
Tatuy The environmental organization has stated that, based on data from the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Los Andes, in the last 30 years the area of glaciers Venezuelans went from 136.8 hectares to 43.1 hectares.
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