💧🌏 Greg CocksSep 2, 2024
Alaska's Juneau Icefield Is Melting At An 'Incredibly Worrying' 50,000 Gallons Per Second [1,577 billion (!) gallons per year]
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/alaskas-juneau-icefield-is-melting-at-an-incredibly-worrying-50000-gallons-per-second-researchers-find-180984650/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49269-y <-- shared paper
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Alaska's Juneau Icefield Is Melting at an 'Incredibly Worrying' 50,000 Gallons per Second, Researchers Find

Between 2010 and 2020, the icefield lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice each year, according to a new study

Smithsonian Magazine