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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 ...
The melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. The snow covered area is now shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was in the 1980s, according to a new study.
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 ...
Hog Butte Fire, Alaska, June 2022 Sign thanking firefighters, Deshka Landing Fire, 2019. In August 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that "[o]ver the past 60 years, most of the state has warmed three degrees (F) on average and six degrees during winter" [1] As a result of this temperature increase, the EPA noted that "Arctic sea ice is retreating, shores are eroding, glaciers ...
Altogether, it was estimated in 2023 that 49% of the world's glaciers would be lost by 2100 at 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) of global warming, and 83% of glaciers would be lost at 4 °C (7.2 °F). This would amount to one quarter and nearly half of mountain glacier *mass* loss, respectively, as only the largest, most resilient glaciers would survive the ...
July air temperatures in northern Alaska and Yukon were about 2-3 °C lower compared to today. [61] Equilibrium line altitudes in Alaska suggest summer temperatures were 2-5 °C compared to preindustrial. [62] Sediment core analysis from Lone Spruce Pond in southwestern Alaska show it was a pocket of relative warmth. [63]
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 ...
Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park , about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Gulf of Alaska . Combined with the Bagley Icefield , where the snow that feeds the glacier accumulates, the Bering is the largest glacier in North America .