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Changing Perspectives: How Bottom-Up Studies Can Improve Water Security
When monitoring melting glaciers, integrating scientific knowledge with local and Indigenous knowledge may improve data collection as well as local adaptation.
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Letting Enchantment Lead the Way: Iceland’s Hidden Folk and Environmental Protection
A new book explores the world of wonder contained in Icelandic myth, and considers how it might spill out of storybook pages and into real life.
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Covering Glaciers With Blankets to Hide the Ice — and the Real Problem
Glacier-saving campaigns are becoming more popular as ice across the globe disappears at an alarming pace. A new analysis examines the actors, motives, and implications of these campaigns in the fight against climate change.
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A Pyramid on Everest, Caught in the Balance
Unsteady funding streams have caused Mount Everest’s “Pyramid” monitoring station to unravel at the seams. It may be an opportunity to re-envision the station’s purpose.
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Reflections on Visits to Pakistan
A conservation biologist writes about his trips to Pakistan over the last 30 years, reflecting on challenges, growth, and connections made over time.
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Two Degrees Too Many: Average Global Temperature Increase Will Trigger Climate Tipping Points
A recent study expands upon previously established tipping points, naming 16 total tipping points and their respective temperature triggers.
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‘The Canary in the Coal Mine’: Most Olympic Peninsula Glaciers Will Disappear by 2070
A recent study projects that climate change will cause most glaciers on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to disappear by 2070, threatening water resources, ecosystems, and tourism.
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Report Released at COP27 Gives a ‘Terminal Diagnosis’ for Summer Sea Ice
The COP27 State of the Cryosphere 2022 Report has stated that summer sea ice will melt completely, likely before 2050. This outcome is deemed “inevitable.”
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Understanding Ice With Lasers: New Tool Helps Researchers Study Remote Glaciers
Researchers at the University of Oregon have created a portable tool that uses lasers to study glacier retreat in remote areas that are typically difficult to reach.