Glaciers

BlackstoneGlacier Alaska 1500 crop

alaska’s melting glaciers could lead to major disturbances in climate

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LONG-STANDING AS­SUMP­TIONS con­cerning the suc­ces­sion of events that led to the re­treat of the glac­iers in the last Ice Age and the major dis­tur­bances in the plan­et’s at­mos­phere that fol­lowed have been turned on their head. Most sci­en­tists be­lieve that the chain of events started in the North At­lantic Ocean, which then af­fected the Pa­cific Ocean. [Read more] “alaska’s melting glaciers could lead to major disturbances in climate”

Italy Glacier PinkSnow 1500

pink snow observed on presena glacier in italy

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MOST OF US HAVE SEEN BLUE ICE but what about pink ice? The head­line of the ar­ticle that at­tracted spurred me on to write this ar­ticle is “Algae turns Italian Alps pink, prompting con­cerns over melting.” It ap­pears on The Guardian web­site and was con­tributed by Agence France-Press (July 5, 2020). [Read more] “pink snow observed on presena glacier in italy”

GCC MountBlanc glacier 1500 crop

where there was once ice, there is now rock

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YOU BROKE OUR GLACIER! That’s a damn clever teaser to get someone surfing the in­ternet to stop a mo­ment and check out the web­site. The ar­ti­cle’s full title is “You broke our glacier: the Mont Blanc re­sort on the cli­mate front­line” by An­gela Giuf­frida for The Guardian (Sep­tember 28, 2019). [Read more] “where there was once ice, there is now rock”