Siachen Glacier

SIACHEN GLACIER: The highest battlefield in the world, the Siachen Glacier, has witnessed conflict between India and Pakistan for over twenty years. Due to this conflict it had resulted in hundreds of causalities caused mostly by adverse climatic conditions and harsh terrain rather than military skirmishes. The conflict is also putting a lot of financial burden on the national exchequer of both sides.Due to the Sliding down a valley in the Karakoram Range, the glacier is 76 kilometers long and varies in width between2 to 8 kilometer.It came upto he up to 6 to 7 meters of the annual total of 10 meters of snow in the winter months. Blizzards can reach speeds of up to 150 knots (nearly 300 kilometers per hour). The temperature came down routinely…

1) The Kashmir battle is a close-by conflict generally among India and Pakistan, having started not long after the division of india in 1947. China has on occasion recognized a minor part. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, and the Kargil War. The two countries have additionally been combined into a couple conflicts over control of the Siachen Glacier. As an inevitable answer for this issue was for Kashmir to have the…

“Presently, 10 percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice, including glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.” (nsidc.org). But, that is changing fast in the modern world. As the temperature of Erath has gone up in the last century. “Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures have warmed roughly 1.33°F (0.74ºC) …” (globalclimate.ucr.edu). This has led to many wondering what the possible outcomes for the future of the planet. This is…

In the article, “Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history,” Robert Mulvaney and several scientists discussed the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula and its relationship to the collapsing ice shelves. They observed that the ice shelves were collapsing which allowed the glaciers to drain ice at a faster rate. The ice shelves that collapsed were at the Antarctic Peninsula which has had the most rapid warming over the past 50 years. Mulvaney and…

Did you know that only 10% of the world is covered by glaciers? The Laurentide ice sheet was 13 million square miles. And it shaped Canada and Minnesota. In this paper, I will explain the effects of the Laurentide ice sheet on Minnesota's landscape. Glaciers may seem irrelevant to how we live now because in Minnesota there hasn't been a glacier for a long time but, they formed our state. The last glacial advance start of the Des Moines lobe was about 75,000 years ago. The last glacial…

During ten thousand B.C. at the Northern Hemisphere, an abrupt global climate change that led to glacial like weather occured. This period is known as Younger Dryas Climate Event. Due to the earth warming, the ice age starting melting. This huge amount of freshwater started flowing into the gulf through the Mississippi River and also to north Atlantic from the east coast. This unusual flow of freshwater into the saltwater caused the water currents to change suddenly causing different weather…

Today there is a lot of discussion about the ice that is melting at the Poles. Both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice. The poles lose around 350 billion tons of ice each year, and as a result, the sea level has risen 11,1 millimeters since 1992. Scientists have discovered that the polar ice caps are losing ice cover at a rate of 9% each year. Since 1995 the Arctic ice has reduced by as much as 40%. Some scientists conclude that the Arctic will be ice-free by 2040. What can we do? First and…

Antarctica as the extreme environment is a continent situated at the southernmost point of the world. Formed from ice freezing over land and rock due to the intense cold, it grows and shrinks each year from its seasons. The ice sheets have developed over the last 1.5 million years, giving us great insight into the past. The Antarctic continent has moved significantly over the course of the earth's formation to how it is in current days, as it was once a nutrition rich land with forests like New…

The Jewels That Mountains Wear Image source: google.com How much ice did you ever see in one place? An ice tray full? A skating rink full? A pond full? A river frozen from bank to bank? That 's a lot of ice. But there are places in the world where there is more. Much more. You know how high mountains are. There are places where the space between mountains is crammed and jammed and packed full of ice. This kind of ice is called glacier. This video simply explains how glacier is…

communication). A glacier is made up of fallen snow, which over many years compresses into thickened ice masses and are unique, in the fact that they can move or flow like very slow rivers…