Northern Cascades Glaciers Suffer 'Shocking Loss' Due to Climate Change, Annual Survey Shows
At a Glance The Northern Cascades glaciers have shrunk by 30%.They are shrinking due to global warming, a lead scientist said.The glaciers help provide drinking water to the Seattle area. Professor Mauri Pelto has surveyed glaciers in Washington's Northern Cascade Mountains every summer for more than three decades. This year, he and his research team were stunned by what they saw. "The bottom line for 2019 is the ," Pelto wrote in a recent blog post at glacierhub.org. Pelto is...