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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

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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

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