by faster | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: K5 News Seattle DATE: October 8, 2019 SNIP: The glaciers of the Olympic Mountains and Cascades are not only breath-taking to look at, they’re also critical to our environment as we know it. “Melting glaciers feed high alpine streams and ecosystems,...
by faster | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Glacier Hub DATE: September 10, 2019 SNIP: The summer of 2019 found the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project in the field for the 36th consecutive summer monitoring the response of North Cascade glaciers to climate change. This long term...
by faster | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Stuff DATE: August 20, 2019 SNIP: Visitors to the Franz Josef glacier are noticing changes – it’s melting away and it’s not the only one. Victoria University of Wellington PHD Student Lauren Vargo said when surveys started in the late 1970s,...
by faster | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: July 25, 2019 SNIP: A new way of measuring how some glaciers melt below the surface of the water has uncovered a surprising realization: Some glaciers are melting a hundred times faster than scientists thought they were. In a new...
by faster | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Weather.com and NASA DATE: April 8, 2019 SNIP: Satellite images of dramatic changes in a glacier in the Russian High Arctic is forcing scientists to rethink how cold-based glaciers work. Cold-based glaciers exist at high latitudes that receive little snow or...