The findings add to a growing catalog of evidence that climate change is now fundamentally changing even the most remote areas of the world
, there is relatively little information about glaciers at the highest elevations.
“That was lots of stress, actually,” says Mariusz Potocki, a glaciochemist and University of Maine doctoral candidate who collected the core. “It was such a relief when it worked.” Based on measurements of warming and ice loss elsewhere in the Himalayas, the researchers infer that most of this loss has occurred since the 1990s. If that rate of ice loss continues, Mayewski says, South Col Glacier “is probably going to disappear within very few decades. It’s quite a remarkable transition.”
has changed quite a lot over those years as well, so it is not only the highest of glaciers, but seemingly all of them.”, in which snow and ice evaporate without transitioning through a liquid-water phase. Sublimation is common in climates that are cold and dry, particularly at high altitudes, but which experience a lot of sunlight and strong winds—all boxes ticked by the south face of Everest.
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