Climate researcher Mauri Pelto has watched 100 North Cascades glaciers disappear since the 1980s, with melting rates nearly tripling in the past decade.
WASHINGTON, USA —
For more than four decades, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has made an annual pilgrimage to the glaciers of Washington’s North Cascades, meticulously documenting his retreat in what has become one of the country’s longest-running glacier monitoring projects.
This summer, as Pelto and his research team wrapped up their 42nd year of field work on the Lower Curtis Glacier, the data told a stark story. The glacier, more than 5,000 years old, is melting at an unprecedented rate and is not expected
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