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April 26, 2022

Olympic Peninsula glaciers expected to disappear in 50 years

By JOHN RYAN
KUOW

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain has been researching the dwindling glaciers of the American West since the 1980s. He said for years, he studied their retreat dispassionately — as an interesting phenomenon to try to understand. Then last year, he had an epiphany.

“It dawned on me that, ‘wait a minute, in 20 or 30 years, everything that I've studied is useless because there are no glaciers,'” Fountain told KUOW.


 
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