Significant decline in North American glaciers since 2000: UNBC study

B.C. glaciers have shrunk “dramatically” in the last decade, losing mass at four times the rate of the previous decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study from the University of Northern B.C.
The researchers are calling their work the “first comprehensive assessment of glacier mass loss for all regions in western North America,” outside of Alaska.
They used satellites to produce elevation models of the over 15,000 icefields and found that on average, the glaciers in B