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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Dani Anguiano

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

Black-and-white before-and-after photos of mountaintops, the first covered in snow and the second mostly bare of it.
East Lyell glacier in Yosemite national park in September 1883 (top) and September 2022. Photograph: Israel Russell/United States Geological Survey, and Greg Stock/National Park Service

Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada, massive glaciers are disappearing and projected to melt away completely by the beginning of the next century, leaving ice-free peaks for the first time in human history, new research has found.

The mountain range’s glaciers are older than previously known, dating back tens of thousands of years, with some as old as the last ice age, according to an article published last week in Science Advances.

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