A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that nearly 300 glaciers in the western United States have disappeared since the 1960s, and the total glacier area has shrunk by about a third as warming continues.
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that nearly 300 glaciers in the western United States have disappeared since the 1960s, and the total glacier area has shrunk by about a third as warming continues.
Nearly 300 glaciers gone and somehow the lesson is still “maybe check the thermostat later.” I live in a place where the snowpack is supposed to be the water supply for half the state, and every spring I watch the reservoir levels like it’s a sports score. Last summer the lake behind our dam sat at a line on the concrete that looked like a bathtub ring.