‘Glaciers can’t get a break’: How climate change is affecting Canada’s icy landscape
On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a north-facing gully, the region’s last remaining glacier is vanishing fast.
Marshall and his team have been measuring the glacier with laser and light technology, and he said the results are concerning. The Coquitlam Glacier is one of several in Western Canada under watch by experts as warming temperatures and soot from wildfires contribute to the melt. “That’s something we need to plan for,” he said, adding the effects will be felt from hydroelectricity to agriculture.Ednie is part of a team of just three people working on the National Glaciology Project, under the government’s climate change geoscience program. They travel in helicopters with skis to visit the same 10 glaciers at least twice per year to measure them.
And while Western Canada’s glaciers don’t add much to sea level rise, the ice caps and ice fields in Canada’s eastern Arctic do, with global implications.
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