Alaska’s glaciers are melting — sending 75 billion tons of water int the ocean each year. While this contribution to global sea level rise is less than that from the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, Alaska’s mountain glaciers are shedding their mass at a much higher rate. Glaciologist Anthony Arendt is co-author of a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters that describes how the mountain glaciers in Alaska seem to be particularly sensitive to the rising air temperatures of global climate change.
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