Main Ice Caps Record Melting; Largest US Reservoir Record Low Level

(Before It's News)

New Satellite Maps Show World’s Major Ice Caps Melting at Unprecedented Rate. Glaciologists in Bremerhaven, Germany, report in the journal The Cryosphere that Greenland and Antarctica alone are now losing ice at the unprecedented rate of 500 cubic kilometers a year.

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America’s Largest Reservoir Drains to Record Low As Western Drought Deepens. Lake Mead—America’s largest reservoir, Las Vegas’ main water source and an important indicator for water supplies in the Southwest—will fall this week to its lowest level since 1937 when the manmade lake was first being filled.

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