BYU study finds glaciers in Himalayas will continue to melt

Published: Tuesday, Jan. 8 2013 10:25 p.m. MST

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Many of the glaciers of the Himalayas are melting, and will continue to melt despite climate changes or consistency occur, according to research done by BYU Geology professor Summer Rupper and a team of students and researchers in the Bhutan region.

"My job was finding all the info we could about the Bhutanese glaciers that had been compiled. I created a map showing where all of these glaciers were ... for easy access."

Burgener's experience being a part of research at BYU as a graduate student in the geology department was a huge opportunity, especially being a part of research that was being used in papers and other studies.

"For geology particularly, BYU is an amazing place to study," he said. "We've got so many awesome national parks and state parks that have amazing rock exposures and are all very close to campus. In almost every undergrad and grad class we didn't just learn about things in the classroom, but got to take fieldtrips and get out into the world and learn to apply."

Mandy Morgan is an enterprise intern for the Deseret News, reporting on values in the media. She is a true-blue Aggie, studying Journalism and Political Science at Utah State University, and hails from Highland, Utah.

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Supercool11

R-Valley, NV

As far as climate change, it seems it would be better to study how to adapt to climate change. The climate will always change and replacing your lightbulbs and buying a hybrid car won't affect the climate a bit. Global warming made Al Gore a More..

8:45 a.m. Jan. 9, 2013
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one old man

Ogden, UT

One more testament to the fact that we need to take the possibility that at least part of climate change is due to human activity.

But if we all refuse to look at that possibility and thus stick our heads firmly in the sand, perhaps we More..