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The Doomsday Glacier – the Largest in West Antarctica
Earth and Leaf Editorial – The Doomsday Glacier This is serious for lots of reasons. Antarctica’s fragile environment is being destroyed. Water and ice are the buffers that maintain a stable and equitable climate on our shared world. It takes a great deal of heat to melt this much ice. The latent heat of fusion uses huge amounts of energy to turn ice at 0 degrees C into water at 0 degrees C and vice versa. Thwaites Glacier is the largest glacier in West Antarctica, pictured here by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in 2019. (Image credit: Photo: ©ESA; Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA) The Doomsday…
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Burying Dead Trees after a Wildfire
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Burying Dead Trees The science actually indicates, leave them alone. Cutting them down and burying dead trees is unnecessary, will disturb the soil releasing CO2. Cutting then down and burning them is idiocy. Charred trees still standing after a wildfire in Glacier National Park, Montana – Gorski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up? Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them instead will trap the carbon underground for centuries. In 2021, a smouldering underground coal seam ignited the tinder-dry grass and brush in Poverty Flats, Montana,…
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