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Origins: Antarctica: Field Notes: Glaciers in the Desert
This track-like motion of the glacier is unique to polar glaciers. My excitement grew when Thomas Nylen invited me to join his team on a data ... student of glaciology, said that streams often meandered along the top of polar glaciers while they flowed inside or under temperate glaciers. Polar glaciers have few crevasses to capture the streams. Sarah was measuring the ...
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FORESTS FOREVER­ Protecting California's Forests
Bird species plummet as habitat dwindles (7/11/08) Mt. Shasta glaciers expand in spite of global warming (7/9/08) A move to ... waiver (5/21/08) Carbon dioxide increases in 2007 (5/20/08) Critics: Polar bear plan must fight global warming (5/20/08) EPA's chief backed ... plan for logging in Sierra (5/14/08) U.S. to list polar bears as threatened species (5/14/08) Mt. Baldy wildfire sluggish as ...
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Freshwater Website: Properties of Water (Glaciers)
General Links Publications Teacher's Corner Glaciers – nature's frozen rivers A huge quantity of fresh water is frozen in polar ice caps and in high mountain glaciers. Snow that is packed down ... of water through the cycle. Like lakes and groundwater reservoirs, glaciers are excellent natural storehouses, releasing water when it is needed most. Glaciers, however, can release water when you need it ...
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Water pollution
Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Both of these islands have glaciers. Glaciers require very specific geographical and climatic conditions. Most are found in regions of high snowfall ... has its source in this glacier. Many tributary glaciers feed the trunk glacier. Siachen This is the largest glacier in the world outside the Polar regions, stretching over a length of about ...
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OCP International Polar Year 2007-2008 Research
OCP International Polar Year 2007-2008 Research About LDEO Give to LDEO Campus Services Campus Life Research Data ... faster than elsewhere around Antarctica, and ice shelf thinning that is believed to allow incoming glaciers to accelerate. In the Amundsen sector, glacier ice is moving into the sea faster than ...
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Living on Earth: Is Global Warming Affecting Polar Ice Shelves?
University of Maine are studying how periods of global warming affected the polar ice cap millions of years ago, in an effort to more ... times the size of the United States that is draped by glaciers up to 3 miles thick. (Wind continues) FITZPATRICK: This frigid landscape ... into space, cooling the Earth's surface. The snow fields and glaciers are also like a giant reservoir, locking up 70% of the ...
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Ellesmere Island Expedition, Polar Expedition Information -- National Geographic
Team members will post regular expedition dispatches updating audiences on their progress and their findings. Historic Ties The Ellesmere Island Expedition is following in the footsteps of legendary polar ... . The Ellesmere expedition, a collaboration with the National Geographic Society, the International Polar Year, James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, and the Royal Norwegian Embassy, ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Polar Programme - IPY Educational Posters -- Overview
Topics: role of the polar regions in global climate change and impact of climate change on the polar regions; greenhouse gases; trends in temperatures, glaciers, sea ice and snow; the ... land and vegetation cover.  International Polar Year (IPY) IPY Educational Posters -- Overview The Polar Regions Climate Change and the Poles Polar People Research in the Polar Regions Biodiversity and the Poles © ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Polar Programme - News - Melting Ice--A Hot Topic? New UNEP Report Shows Just How Hot It's Getting
Graphics Publications Websites News & Features Polar Programme Home Programme Overview Activities News International Polar Year (IPY) Partners & Links Maps & Graphics Polar Staff Marine Programme Regional Field Programme ... and gas fields and fisheries, that will require careful environmental management. Glaciers Many glaciers are already receding in response to climate change. The report says that ...
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WWF - Threatened Species: Polar Bears
Polar bears Nature at risk Threatened species Polar bears Turtles Pikas Birds Glaciers at risk Coral bleaching Sea level rise Amazon Threatened Species: Polar Bears Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) © WWF-Canon / Dan GURAVICH Related links WWF Polar ...
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