glaciers

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By modeling future projections, they demonstrated that this cooling effect will peak between the 2020s and 2040s, before the glaciers' steady mass loss leads to their large-scale retreat, reversing the cooling trend.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025

Its removal could accelerate the other glaciers’ collapse, potentially unleashing more than 3 meters of global ocean rise in coming centuries.

From Science Magazine • May 19, 2024

"We are now in a position to document the glaciers' extinction," added Donaldi, a coordinator of the climate research division of the agency, known as BMKG.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2023

In the longer term, the glaciers’ disappearance would only add to the continent’s water concerns.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

There was no sound, for the glaciers' slushy feet that fed the streams had hardened into adamant, and a deathlike silence pervaded the frozen wilderness.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold