Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "ICEBERGS"

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    • Glaciers and the Environment 

      United Nations Environment Programme (1992)
      The aim of this publication is to make the knowledge we have gained about glaciers more widely known, and to emphasize the need to develop this knowledge. Glaciology holds one of the keys to our past. It may also hold many ...

    • Huge Iceberg Breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) December 2010 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2010-12)
      Glaciers are naturally dynamic, slowly changing in shape and size as they move. When a glacier enters the sea, new icebergs form as pieces break off, or calve, from the glacier. How much calving occurs depends on the ...

    • State of the Global Climate 2021 

      World Meteorological Organization (2022-05)
      The present WMO report provides an update on the annual state of the climate observed in the year 2021, and shows continued trends (also reported in the IPCC reports) in terms of key indicators. These include concentrations ...