The historic Zittel hut on top of a snow-capped mountain high in the Austrian Alps has weathered many a storm. But ever more extreme climate change is taking a terrible toll on the century-old wooden refuge. “When your hand fits into a crack in the foundation, there is need for action,” says Georg Unterberger, who … Read more
A new paper published in Science says that as glacier ice melts, new land and rivers are being revealed in the ice-covered transboundary region shared by northern B.C., Alaska, and the Yukon. The peer-reviewed paper was a collaboration among researchers from Simon Fraser University, the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs’ Office, the University of Montana Flathead Lake … Read more
The United Nations weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heat waves in the future. The World Meteorological Organization also warned that the average temperature for the year is up some 1.4 degrees C from … Read more
