je.st
news
Canada Could Lose 70 Percent of Glaciers by End of Century, Study Finds
2015-04-14 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: British Columbia and Alberta could lose 70 percent of their glaciers by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. Wetter coastal mountain regions in northwestern British Columbia are expected to lose about half of their glacial volume, the researchers found, but the Rocky Mountains, in the drier interior portion of Canada, could lose 90 percent of their glaciers. Soon our mountains could...
Tags: of
end
canada
study
Category:Electronics and Electrical