Quotes of the Day

When we're measuring glacier margins, by the we go home the glacier is already smaller than what we're measured.
DAN FAGRE, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
Wednesday, Apr. 07, 2010

Open quoteWhen we're measuring glacier margins, by the time we go home, the glacier is already smaller than what we've measured.Close quote

  • DAN FAGRE,
  • an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, on the news that Glacier National Park in Montana has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change; 25 remain
Photo: National Park Service / AP | Source: AP