A man fishes through a hole cut in the ice at Crowley Lake on the opening day of trout season Saturday. “I know that’s hard to believe, but we’re getting into May and the peak is probably yet to come.” A Department of Water Resources crew conducted its fifth snow survey of the year Monday and determined that statewide snowpack …
The number has become well-known over the past few days; it’s the number of glaciers in Pakistan, widely considered to be the highest concentration of glaciers outside the poles. Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas on the Indian side are also extremely vulnerable to high run-off, glacial lake outburst floods, and other related disasters due to a rapid trend of …
As dawn breaks over Javed Rahi’s mountain village, a loud boom shatters the silence and a torrent of water comes cascading down from the melting glacier nearby, followed by a thick cloud of smoke. But rising global temperatures linked to climate change are causing the glaciers to rapidly melt, creating thousands of glacial lakes. At least 16 such glacial lake …
With climate change unleashing extreme events across the world, a new study warns of possible viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could be released as the permafrost thaws around polar caps. The rapidly thawing permafrost could even lead to the release of radioactive waste from Cold War nuclear reactors and submarines. According to research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, …
