Alaska’s Glaciers are Speeding Towards a Crucial Tipping Point The new findings indicate that the state’s future contributions to rising tides may soon be baked-in, and impossible to prevent. Inverse · Jul 5, 2024
Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could soon reach an irreversible tipping point. That’s the conclusion of new research colleagues and I have published on the Juneau Icefield, which straddles the Alaska-Canada border near the Alaskan capital of Juneau. The Conversation · Jul 4, 2024