Unusual advances

New glacier model helps explain how ice masses can grow even in a generally warming climate

Glaciers along the southeastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau temporarily defied a warming climate around 9,000 years ago. Now a new model helps explain how they accumulated ice even though other glaciers in the region waned, scientists say.

PUSHING FORWARD For the past few decades, glaciers in Asia’s Karakoram range (some of which are shown here) have been growing despite Earth’s generally warming climate.