Tag Archives: Cryospheric
Cryospheric science: Asia’s glacier changes
Nature Geoscience 10, 621 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2995 Author: Daniel Farinotti Mass changes in High Mountain Asia’s glaciers have been under dispute for almost a decade. An analysis of satellite data archives provides an observation-based mass budget for every single glacier in … Continue reading
Cryospheric science: The power of glacial microbes
Nature Geoscience 10, 329 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2933 Author: Elizabeth B. Kujawinski Organic carbon fluxes from glaciers are a key control on biogeochemical cycles in polar regions. Two analyses of carbon cycling in glaciers show the importance of glacier–surface microbial communities in … Continue reading