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Glaciers are keeping themselves from melting — but not for long
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laprovincia.esNew research has shown that glaciers are likely to reach the maximum of their global self-cooling capacity in the next decade, before their near-surface temperatures skyrocket and melting dramatically accelerates.
Glaciers are keeping themselves from melting — but not for long
High in the mountains, glaciers once kept their cool—literally. The massive ice bodies create their own cold microclimates that retard melting even as the rest of the planet warms. But an exhaustive new global study by researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) reveals that this natural safeguard is starting to break down. By midcentury, glaciers can lose their capacity to remain cooler than the air around them, leavin…
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