News from Wendell Tangborn:
Disappearing glaciers tell us climate change is here SEATTLE, Sept. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — There are about 160,000 glaciers in the world, and most of them have been around for thousands of years. But glaciers are currently shrinking at an alarming rate. Glacier expert Wendell Tangborn says glaciers are the proverbial "canaries in the coal […]
Shrinkage of Bering Glacier attributed to Earth's rapidly warming climate SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — North America's largest glacier is rapidly wasting away. Bering Glacier, which flows from the vast ice fields of Alaska's St Elias and Chugach Mountains toward the Gulf of Alaska, covers 1700 square miles, an area larger than the state of […]
