❄️🌿 The Glacier’s Green Series - 4/10
🌸 Rhodiola Rosea (Roseroot)

ℹ️ Roseroot is found in the paraglacial regions of Scandinavia and Greenland. Known for its medicinal properties, this hardy plant thrives in the cold, rocky environments left behind by receding glaciers.

🔥 The ongoing climate crisis endangers its existence, as the warming climate reduces the cold habitats this plant depends on.

#Glacierwatch #Roseroot #Scandinavia #Greenland #ClimateAction #GlacialRetreat

Another day, another study that forces climate scientists to re-evaluate their estimates of future damage upward. This time it's about the Greenland ice sheet.

"Our results indicate that, by neglecting calving-front retreat, current consensus estimates of ice-sheet mass balance have underestimated recent mass loss from Greenland by as much as 20%."

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #GlacialRetreat #Greenland #ClimateScience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06863-2

“The winds will change the ocean, the ocean will melt #Antarctica—and the water is coming to visit you.” If the #ThwaitesGlacier collapses, it could bring much of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet with it and raise sea levels by over three meters. The potential collapse of Thwaites is among the largest environmental threats to global civilization—and we’ve barely begun to understand it. What took us so long?

By Marissa Grunes.

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier/

#climatechange #sealevelrise #GlacialRetreat

Halcyon holocene days have elapsed

Like hours whiled away waiting

For a time to come that has already passed

Certainty a luxury of the past

Fate intertwined with a planet ailing

#Anthropocene #ClimateChange #IceAge #Pyrocene #Holocene #AgeOfMan #Shasta #NorCal
#GlacialRetreat #Geology #poetry #Today #PNW #Oregon #BadPoetry