It is unlikely that these calving events are the result of regional climate warming.
Officials deny assertions that the dam and its more than 600-km (370-mile) reservoir might have affected the regional climate.
This warming is causing glaciers and ice shelves to melt, releasing large volumes of fresh water into the oceans which not only raises sea level, but also influences regional climate change.
The spring brought below-average rainfalls in states such as Illinois and Indiana, and the warmest average temperatures in the Midwest for the first five months of the year on record, according to the Midwestern Regional Climate Center.
So far, laboratory experiments meant to measure how plants will respond to warmer temperatures in the future haven't worked well, and computer models to forecast regional climate effects have fared no better, NASA and university researchers recently concluded.
As part of the FRIEND AMIGO LAC database system, the Regional Draught Surveillance and Diagnosis System Project maintains a regional climate and meteorological database for the subregion of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean that is currently being prepared for the whole region of Latin America.
But given its past performances, the question is whether SAARC will be able to steer the regional ship through the climate change storm.
The ACCC project is one of the various sub-regional efforts to adapt to climate change in costal zones.
The major player in South Asia, India, has also been stressing regional cooperation in efforts to mitigate climate change.
One area where the data could prove important was in attempts to "downscale" results from global climate models to a regional level.
Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
"Environment ministers from all SAARC member countries except Sri Lanka were present in the meet and it was indeed a nice beginning towards dealing with the climate change on a regional basis, " said Nepalese environment minister Thakur Prasad Sharma after attending the informal meet.
Its national action plan on climate change frequently mentions a regional approach.
There are few people to handle difficult cross-regional topics such as water resources or climate change, and few linguists fluent in tongues helpful beyond Asia.
The meeting provides an opportunity for senior members of the Obama Administration to hear local and regional ideas, questions and concerns about climate change impacts in Hawaii and the Pacific and to describe federal planning efforts already underway.
And there I will discuss in greater detail our efforts to broaden and deepen our cooperation and make some specific announcements on important issues like counterterrorism and regional security, on clean energy and climate change, and on the advance of economic growth and development and democracy around the globe.
The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes.
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Today, no country is in the old sense far away when the consequences of regional instability and terrorism - and then also climate change, poverty, mass population movements and even organised crime - reverberate quickly round the globe.
Argo data, along with satellite and other ocean data, feed into regional and global forecast models used for ocean and climate prediction over seasons, years, and decades.
The Leaders discussed global and regional issues, non-proliferation, counterterrorism, and climate change.
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In addition, rifts over climate change and energy policy tend to be more regional than partisan.
The other day, Solve Climate News provided in-depth coverage of a small regional business story with global ramifications: a battery maker called Axion Power in the Rust Belt burgh of New Castle, Penn.
In the best political climate, says one economist, growth in Israel's regional trade could not add more than 1% to its overall export volume.
No one can even forecast global, national or regional weather conditions that will occur months or years into the future, much less climate shifts that will be realized over decadal, centennial and longer periods.
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Mike was a pioneer in the study of groundwater as an archive of past climate change and his research provided seminal scientific advances on controls on water quality in regional aquifers, recharge over time and space.
It focused on climate change science, as well as on key risks to Southern Africa, national and regional response strategies, and particularly on how best to communicate complex information to the general public.
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