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Each week, GlacierHub offers stories and images, showing the relevance of the world's high icy places for all humanity. Read about the recent research on Glaciers. The GlacierHub blog is managed by Ben Orlove, an anthropologist at the Columbia Climate School and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.
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4d ago
Since January, thousands of protestors in Gilgit-Baltistan, a glaciated region of northern Pakistan, have been demanding a restoration of a recently revoked wheat subsidy in a push for political autonomy and economic justice ..read more
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1M ago
For the first time since dams were removed on Washington State’s Elwha River in 2014, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe was able to open a ceremonial and subsistence salmon fishery ..read more
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1M ago
David trumps Goliath in this battle over natural resources ..read more
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2M ago
Decades after the last grizzly bear was seen in Washington State’s North Cascades, efforts to bring them back have been met with both enthusiasm and resistance ..read more
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3M ago
An artist unintentionally captured glacial retreat for over forty years. An exhibit brings his paintings together to raise awareness of climate change ..read more
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3M ago
Significant ocean warming and associated ice-shelf melting is unavoidable, even under the most ambitious future climate scenario, according to new research ..read more
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3M ago
A youth organization in Oakland, CA, is transforming a popular role-playing game into a vehicle for climate education and inspiration for the next generation ..read more
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5M ago
Forty years after Mauri Pelto began studying the glaciers in northern Washington, much has changed about the glaciers, the project and the people involved ..read more
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6M ago
Experts say that snow and ice loss will create conditions beyond the limits of adaptation for billions of people if climate warming reaches 2 degrees Celsius ..read more
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7M ago
At three Cascade Range volcanos, glacier movement is causing tremors that visitors and even people in nearby cities have been able to feel ..read more