The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point.
Like many Alaskan glaciers, Juneau’s are top-heavy, with lots of ice and snow at high altitudes above the end-of-summer ...
A new study says Alaska glaciers are melting faster than expected. Credit: NSIDC / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Glaciers in the Juneau ...
Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield, located in southeastern Alaska, are melting faster than scientists previously believed. A study from Newcastle University in England reveals that since 2010, the loss ...
Bethan Davies is a senior lecturer in physical geography at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. She is a glacial ...
As the ice melts, the level of the Earth's oceans rise, which will slowly put some of the world's coastal areas underwater. ...
During that period, Juneau Icefield lost between .65 and 1.01 cubic kilometers ... More than 20 percent of global sea level ...
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The Juneau Icefield is home to the Mendenhall and more than a thousand other glaciers. Ice there has melted especially fast ...
Juneau Icefield lies 2,000 feet north of Juneau and extends through the border with British Columbia and is the fifth-largest ...
The Juneau Icefield, which extends for some 1,500 square miles from northwest British Columbia, Canada, into southeast Alaska ...