Von Axel Bojanowski By Axel Bojanowski
Many of the world ice sheets are getting smaller, but they melt more slowly than expected. At the poles are melting the glaciers more stable than in previous years, in the highlands outside Antarctica and Greenland, it is only half as fast as assumed in the Himalayas and the Alps since 2003 they are almost barely thawed. The global satellite data show, now in the scientific journal "Nature" was published.
But now data show that the melt in the Himalayas apparently has come to a standstill. From 2003 to 2010 was hardly any ice disappeared, the researchers led by Thomas Jacob of the University of Colorado at Boulder in "Nature"...
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