by faster | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Alaska Dispatch News DATE: September 19, 2017 SNIP: A study of rock avalanches in the western part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve found that the likelihood of large slides covering about 2 square miles has at least doubled in the last five years. As...
by faster | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Climate Central DATE: June 28, 2017 SNIP: In the past two decades, the Greenland ice sheet has become the biggest single contributor to rising sea levels, mostly from melt across its vast surface. That surface melt is, in turn, driven mostly by an uptick in...
by faster | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: April 11, 2017 SNIP: The largest glacier in Greenland is even more vulnerable to sustained ice losses than previously thought, scientists have reported. Jakobshavn glacier, responsible for feeding flotillas of icebergs into the Ilulissat...
by faster | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Associated Press DATE: April 5, 2017 SNIP: More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early in the season, forcing vessels to slow to a crawl or take detours of hundreds of...
by faster | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: CBC News DATE: February 20, 2017 SNIP: Canada’s glaciers are responding rapidly to a warming Arctic and are a major contributor to sea level rise, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of California Irvine studied data collected from 1991...
