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SAN FRANCISCO and DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Meltwater Group, one of the world's leading online media intelligence companies, today announced the acquisition of IceRocket, a top social search engine. Together, the companies will provide public relations, marketing, communications and advertising professionals with the most comprehensive set of tools for monitoring, analyzing and engaging in relevant conversations across social channels. All of IceRocket's employees will join...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Meltwater Group, one of the world's leading social media and news monitoring companies, today announced the immediate availability of Meltwater Buzz Engage, a new module in the Meltwater Buzz product suite. Engage fuses the social CRM and business offerings of the recently acquired JitterJam product with the social media monitoring and analysis capabilities of Meltwater Buzz. This makes Engage the most comprehensive social marketing tool for...

Loss of glaciers and snowpack due to climate warming in alpine regions is putting pressure on a rare aquatic insect, the meltwater stonefly, according to a study recently released in Climatic Change Letters.In the study, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Montana, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service illustrate that alpine aquatic insects can be good early warning indicators of climate warming in mountain ecosystems. The glaciers in Glacier...

Sudden changes in the volume of meltwater contribute more to the acceleration "“ and eventual loss "“ of the Greenland ice sheet than the gradual increase of temperature, according to a University of British Columbia study.The ice sheet consists of layers of compressed snow and covers roughly 80 per cent of the surface of Greenland. Since the 1990s, it has been documented to be losing approximately 100 billion tonnes of ice per year "“ a process that most scientists agree is...

North Pacific circulation radically changed by past post-glacial warmingToward the end of the last ice age, a major reorganization took place in the current system of the North Pacific with far-reaching implications for climate, according to a new study published in the July 9, 2010, issue of Science by an international team of scientists from Japan, Hawaii, and Belgium.Earth's climate is regulated largely by the world ocean's density-driven circulation, which brings warm surface water to the...

Researchers learning more about how water beneath glaciers contributes to ice lossScientists who study the melting of Greenland's glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.Researchers previously thought that meltwater simply lubricated ice against the bedrock, speeding the flow of glaciers out to sea.Now, new studies have revealed that the effect of meltwater on acceleration and ice loss -- through fast-moving...

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by acceleration of Greenland's fast-flowing outlet glaciers, and increased meltwater production at the ice sheet surface. Recent warm summers further accelerated the mass loss to 273 Gt per year (1 Gt is the...

Increasing winter temperatures are causing the Himalayan glaciers in Kashmir to melt at an "alarming" rate, harming water supplies to areas of India and Pakistan, says a new study. The Kolahoi glacier, the biggest in the province, has melted by one square mile in the last three decades, said the research offered at an international workshop on climate change in Srinagar. Himalayan glaciers connect to Asia's nine biggest rivers that pour into China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and...

British scientists say they have created a model of the British and Irish ice sheets that shows they moved in unexpected ways. Durham University researchers said their model reveals for the first time how the glaciers reversed their flows and retreated back into upland regions from where they originated. During the last glacial maximum, around 21,500 years ago, the ice sheets built up on the high land of the Lake District, north Pennines and Scottish Southern Uplands, the researchers said....

Dust trapped deep in Antarctic ice sheets is helping scientists unravel details of past climate change.Researchers have found that dust blown south to Antarctica from the windy plains of Patagonia "“ and deposited in the ice periodically over 80,000 years "“ provides vital information about glacier activity.Scientists hope the findings will help them to better understand how the global climate has changed during the past ice age, and so help predict environmental changes in the future.The...