by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Remote Mountain Peaks are a Boulder Scientist’s Laboratory “We have a portable laboratory,” Horodyskyj says. “Sometimes we carry loads of fifty or sixty pounds up and down the mountain.” Horodyskyj wants to know how black carbon pollution (commonly known as...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking a glacier’s pulse Ulyana Horodyskyj rappels down a ridge on the Ngozumpa Glacier in the Himalaya mountain range. Working at about 5,000 m above sea level — Tibet to the north and Nepal to the south — her stunning view of snow-capped peaks is breathtaking....
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Caught on Video: A Himalayan Glacier Deflates Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming. But they also conceal a more ominous effect of climate change: they are deflating. They are losing internal ice mass to melting, which...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Press
Taking the pulse of Ngozumpa It’s not the greatest glacier to look at – far from it. It’s smothered in a layer of rocky debris that’s fallen from the surrounding cliffs, giving it a very grey, dirty appearance. But Ngozumpa is generating a lot...
by admin | Jun 26, 2019 | News
T-rex in Space! – June 26, 2019 Earlier this week, I went on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Sharing with you today something out-of-this-world! Back in 1992, a house was being constructed in Littleton, Colorado. During...
