Melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s.

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.

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Melting of Alaskan glaciers accelerating faster than previously thought Melting of glaciers in a major Alaskan icefield has accelerated and could reach an irreversible tipping point earlier than previously thought. The research found that glacier loss on Juneau Icefield, which straddles the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, has increased dramatically since 2010. The team looked at records going back to 1770