The glacier is around 1/10 of a square mile — or between 50 and 60 acres, said Matthew Sturm, a geophysics professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute and the ...

Climate change is taking a dramatic toll on glaciers in Alaska ... of the original ice volume. Study looked at 250 years of glacier 'behavior' To complete the study, researchers used historical ...

Glaciers in Southeast Alaska have been melting since the end of the Little Ice Age, ... When they combined their maps of ice loss and shear stress with seismic records back to 1920, ...

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, about 12.5 cubic miles of ice was lost each year from Alaska glaciers. This rate nearly doubled from the mid-1990s to 2001, to 23 cubic miles per year .

The 19 glaciers included in the study are shown as blue dots. While Alaska glaciers are just a small fraction of the planet’s glacial ice, they are losing ice faster than any other glacierized ...

Map shows the ice sheets and glaciers melting that scientists most fear will be the source of catastrophic rising sea levels. ... Catastrophic collapse — Columbia Glacier in Alaska.

Glaciers are massive bodies of perennial ice, snow and sediment that cover about 11 percent of the land on earth. When a glacier is heavy enough, it slides slowly downhill, picking up sediment and ...

Still, Alaska remains a wee player in the global ice frappe, producing only about 8.5 percent of the world’s annual glacier shrinkage of 526 billion tons, according to the study, led by a team ...

Most of Alaska's glaciers are retreating or thinning or both, a new book by the U.S. Geological Survey reports. About 5 percent of Alaska's area is covered by more than 100,000 glaciers — that's ...

The glacier is around 1/10 of a square mile — or between 50 and 60 acres, said Matthew Sturm, a geophysics professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute and the leader ...