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turkish glaciers

NASA: Turkey’s Glaciers Have Shrunken by Half

Turkish glaciers

NASA just wrote this article today about Turkey’s shrinking glaciers. Yes, Turkey has glacier and high peaks and their glacier half lost half of their collective mass since 1970. Turkey’s highest elevation is Mt. Ararat at 16,859′. Turkey had 14 main glaciers in the 1970s and 5 of them have completely disappeared. The skiing […]

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SnowBrains | July 2, 2015
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