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Pictured: The cruise liner that ran aground off Alaska
"A cruise ship that grounded for about nine hours near Glacier Bay in Alaska has been towed to safety, a Coast Guard spokesman said.A National Park Service vessel was transferring passengers and crew members to a nearby port before they were taken to Juneau. A spokesman for...Mysterious California Glaciers Keep Growing Despite Warming
Going against the trend, these northern California glaciers are growing. " MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down...Bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice
99.9% of bacteria can be wiped or washed away by many of the soaps we have today but clearly this bacteria found in a Greenland glacier is more resilient than that. Surviving for more than 120,000 years in an...DNA links 17 people to B.C. Ancient Iceman
In 1999 an Ancient Iceman found entombed in a BC Glacier for Centuries has direct links to the First Nations Wolf Clan through the marvel of DNA Technology."DNA links at least 17 people to B.C. icemanRelated to man...Chilean Lake Suddenly Disappears
"A glacial lake in southern Chile suddenly disappeared this week in a phenomenon that scientists are attributing to global warming."Mighty ice chunk lifts and separates
The breakup of a Connecticut-sized ice shelf has many scientists worried about the effects of global warming."(CNN) -- Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of...World's glaciers melting at record rate
With global glaciers-a vital water source for millions, or even billions, of people worldwide-melting at a record rate, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) urged countries to agree on a new emissions...
Photography in National Parks – Be Aware, Not Afraid
Our National Parks are wild, beautiful and all too often dangerous, especially for tourists with cameras. I have often seen people so caught up with recording their experience that they put themselves... Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is Collapsing: Trend Spells Catastrophic Sea Leve...
"UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in...Herr Gore...
"In an article published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Geoscience, Hugh F. J. Corr and David G. Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica. For... Tourism at the End of the World
"Tourism at the End of the World
By Stephen Leahy*
So-called “climate tourism” is a mix of legitimate interest in protecting nature, the desire to see rare wildlife on the verge of extinction, and, of course, the search for profit.
TORONTO, Jan 14 (Tierramérica).- -... Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
NEW YORK, MIAMI, FRENCH RIVIERA, LONDON taking first steps reacting to rising water levels and storm dammage NASA ANTARCTICA OZONEHOLE VIDEOEXPLAINER"Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by... Antarctic Ice Loss Is Escalating: Inc. NBC NEWS VIDEO
"Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster... Scientists excited over discovery of foot in hiking boot
Maybe they can match up toenail records or something..."Scientists in New Zealand are scrambling to know the owner of a foot found in a boot on a glacier on the island’s South Island. The reason for the excitement is once the owner is known, it is hoped that this will... 8,000-year-old take on Noah's Ark
First Nations had a similar legend about Lake Agassiz and the rising waters around central Canada, so similar to Greeks and Turks legends about the Black sea's earthen dam separating the mediterranean breaking way...
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