by faster | Dec 27, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: CTV News DATE: December 27, 2018 SNIP: Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say. David Hik, an ecology...
by faster | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Atlantic DATE: September 11, 2018 SNIP: In the summer of 1987, a woman visiting Alaska was crushed by a 1,000-pound chunk of ice. According to news reports at the time, Thais Grabenauer, 59, had been taking pictures with her husband at the foot of Exit...
by faster | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 24, 2018 SNIP: “Global climate change has serious and directly observable consequences in high mountains,” says Vincent Neirinck from Mountain Wilderness, a campaign group that works to preserve mountain environments around the world....
by faster | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News and Nature DATE: June 13, 2018 SNIP: The most complete assessment to date of Antarctica’s ice sheets confirms that the meltdown accelerated sharply in the past five years, and there is no sign of a slowdown. That means sea level is...
by faster | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Stanford University DATE: January 23, 2018 SNIP: A new study shows that a large and potentially unstable Antarctic glacier may be melting farther inland than previously thought and that this melting could affect the stability of another large glacier nearby –...