Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.
Category: Ice
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In Nepal and Tibet, Pollution on Glaciers Could Fuel More Flood Disasters
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Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights In Anticipation of Powerful Winter Storm
Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights over the weekend in anticipation of frigid weather and ice and snow across much of the country.
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Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.
Managers of electric grids say freezing temperatures and ice and snow could lead to power outages in many places, potentially leaving millions in the dark.
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The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving
A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.
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How Japan Remade American Culture
Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.
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Baltazar Ushca, Who Kept Andean Ice Harvesting Alive, Dies at 80
He trekked up Ecuador’s tallest mountain twice a week for six decades to hack ice off a glacier with a pickax. He is believed to have been the last of his breed.
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Climate Change Is Making Glacier Tourism More Popular, and Riskier
More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable.
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5 Must-See Festivals in Asia This Winter
Catch a mountain trout on a frozen South Korean river, witness a fiery pelting of devotees in Taiwan or find your cold-weather bliss in a Japanese snow maze.
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Is Ice the Ultimate Luxury?
Americans, in particular, tend to think of frozen water as essential. But this seemingly ubiquitous commodity is no longer something we can take for granted.
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In Search of Iceberg Alley’s Spectacular Show
Each spring, opalescent icebergs from the Greenland ice sheet pass through Iceberg Alley, off the eastern edge of Canada, on a slow-motion journey southward.
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The Poignant Music of Melting Ice
The New York Times – Music:Scientists and musicians are recording the sounds of unfreezing water to document and predict the effects of climate change. Can their work help slow it, too?