Click Here to Read: The Big Melt Accelerates by Kenneth Chang in The New York Times on May 19, 2014.
Muir Glacier at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska is among the many worldwide that are disappearing. Muir, left, as seen in August 1941, and photographed in August 2004. W. Field; B. Molnia / U.S.G.S., via Glacier Photograph Collection