More than a third of western states’ glacial cover has been lost since 1950s as planet warms

Six western states, including Oregon, have lost more than one-third of their glacial cover since 1950 and more than 300 glaciers in those states have disappeared entirely as the earth has rapidly warmed, a first-of-its-kind inventory and analysis confirms. Researchers at Portland State University and the U.S. Geological Survey built their findings on an earlier […]