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Alaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace
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2024-07-02 at 8:35 PM UTCAlaskan Ice Field Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ Pace
The Juneau Ice Field, which sprawls across the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice a year between 2010 and 2020, the researchers estimated. That’s a sharp acceleration from the decades before, and even sharper when compared with the mid-20th century or earlier, the scientists said. All told, the ice field has shed a quarter of its volume since the late 18th century, which was part of a period of glacial expansion known as the Little Ice Age.
As societies add more and more planet-warming carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, glaciers in many areas could cross tipping points beyond which their melting speeds up rapidly. -
2024-07-03 at 8:53 PM UTCSomeone tell them it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere and ice melt during the summer is normal.
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2024-07-03 at 9:06 PM UTCthose poor fish 😭