glacier retreat

The glaciers in Glacier National Park are melting.

Snowpack in Yellowstone National Park is decreasing.

Blueberry bushes in Acadia National Park are flowering weeks earlier than they did more than 100 years ago.

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“We have been monitoring the rate of the melting of ice on top of the mountain and the rate at which it is melting is alarming but I should say that it is as a result of climate change,” said John Magezi an environmental expert who led a team of researchers on the mountain.

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A new study by NASA and several partners has found that in California's Sierra Nevada, atmospheric river storms are two-and-a-half times more likely than other types of winter storms to result in destructive “rain-on-snow” events, where rain falls on existing snowpack. Those events...

Glaciologists in China and elsewhere have said for years that climate change is the main cause of glacier erosion, which threatens the water sources of much of humanity.

Officials in the far northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang now say another factor is putting the fragile...

In July 2011, Arnaud Temme and three friends were climbing the Rottalgrat, a tough route on the west side of the Jungfrau in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, when rocks began to rain down from above. Temme, an experienced alpine climber, took a rock to the shoulder and a handful more...

Each week, GlacierHub highlights three stories from the forefront of glacier news. 
 
Modeling glacial lake outburst flood process chain: the case of Lake Palcacocha and Huaraz, Peru...

The village of Manang, high in the Himalayas in Nepal, is using economic diversification to stave off the effects of climate change, but will soon reach a point where more adaptation is needed, Katie Konchar and her coauthors warned in a new...

Glaciers are an important factor for the success of agriculture in valleys in Chile. According to a recent study in the International Journal of Water Resources...

Harvestmen— a spider-like arachnid— are among the first creatures to inhabit land in the wake of glacier retreat, according to a recent study by Sigmund Hågvar and Daniel Flø in the ...

Mountain glaciers are significant water storage mechanisms, but they are rapidly declining in extent worldwide. A new study shows that in the Pacific Northwest, glaciers in British Columbia and Alberta are projected to decline by around 70 percent relative to their 2005 levels by 2100...

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