5+ hour, 21+ min ago  (645+ words) Instrument records and long-term observations show that Alpine glaciers have been retreating and thinning significantly since the end of the Little Ice Age from approximately 1300 to 1850. Now imagine someone bringing sandwiches. Not metaphorical ones'actual ones, wrapped in that lovely wax…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (553+ words) Forty-one years ago Gov. Ted Schwinden appointed me as chairman of his newly-formed Governor's Drought Task Force. Montana's legendary rivers were running dry, fish were dying, and the governor was whining, "I can't make it rain." So he appointed a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (159+ words) Image by Amar Adestiempo. The new studies identify new concerns: (1) undersea storms that deteriorate/melt from below (2) hundreds of ice earthquakes, fracturing the glacier (3) Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, a major portion of the glacier, seriously losing stability. And finally, a…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (255+ words) You really can't make this stuff up." Last week Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists electroshocked the Big Hole River to collect data as part of a trout "adult mortality study" in conjunction with Montana State University." If…...