Since 2010, the melting of ice fields in Alaska has accelerated several times faster than in the 1970s. Scientists note that due to the flat shape of the glaciers, some of them may disappear completely.
British and American climatologists published in the journal Nature Communications data, according to which from 2010 to 2020 about five times, if compared with data from the 1970s, accelerated melting of the Juneau glacier in Alaska.
Press service of the British University of Newcastle, whose scientists and conducted the study, noted that due to global warming, the atmosphere is affecting the entire area of the ice fields of Alaska. In the future, some of the region's glaciers could disappear completely.
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