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A National Park Service report on Alaska's glaciers noted glaciers within Alaska national parks shrank 8% between the 1950s and early 2000s and glacier-covered area across the state decreased by ...
Scientists label their findings, which show glaciers could face rapid and irreversible retreat sooner than expected, as ‘very worrying’. Alaskan glacier melt has accelerated sharply in recent ...
Photojournalist Larry Pannell estimates around "two thirds" of the Sawyer Glacier has disappeared since he first visited in 2012. Climate change: Shocking photos show Alaska glacier melting Skip ...
The rapid retreat of the Cordilleran ice sheet is a focus of study by glaciologists seeking to understand the difference in patterns of melting in marine-terminating glaciers, glaciers whose margin extends into open water without seafloor contact, and land-terminating glaciers, with a land or seafloor margin, as scientists believe the western ...
The rate of glacier melt depends on the surface albedo. Recent research has shown the growth of snow and glacier ice algae darkens local surface conditions, decreasing the albedo and thus increases the melt rate on these surfaces. [46] [45] [47] Melting glaciers and ice sheets have been directly linked to increase in sea level rise. [48]
Mini surges typically show lag times of basal flow of 5–10 hours, which correlates to differences between the surging part of a glacier and the output of water and sediment. [14] When the 1982 surge ended on July 5, there was a large flood event that day, and more flooding in the following days.
Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska are melting at a faster rate than previously thought and may reach an irreversible tipping point sooner than expected, according to a study ...
Alaska's mighty Muldrow Glacier is moving 50 to 100 times faster than normal. It's a major surge. Large parts of the 39-mile-long "river of ice" are progressing some 30 to 60 feet per day, as ...