Alaska’s Juneau icefield is melting nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s
Alaska’s Juneau Ice Field, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is experiencing rapid melting and is currently shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was in the 1980s. The researchers tracked snow accumulation going back to 1948 and observed that melt rates have been increasing since about a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2019, 64 glaciers […]