Portal talk:Current events/2015 November 27

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Glacier Retreat

(1) W.Post article on U.S. Glacier National Park includes interview with "Dan Fagre, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who monitors the park’s 25 remaining glaciers and plots each year’s losses" (2) BBC article includes information from Dr. Ann Rowan, PhD. Earth Sciences, University of Sheffield who led the field study team, "the first scientific team to visit the region after the devastating earthquake last April." "Ponds on the surface of the Khumbu glacier in the Himalayas have expanded and joined together to form larger bodies of water." (3) Radio New Zealand reports "Research by New Zealand geoscientists, published overnight in the journal Nature Communications," by Richard Jones, a postdoctoral research fellow at Victoria University....