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Glaciers

Say Goodbye to the World’s Highest Glacier

The highest glacier in the world is set to disappear forever. The Chacaltaya glacier, which formerly served as Bolivia’s only ski resort, was the world’s highest lift-served ski area and the northernmost ski area in South America. All that remains of the ski area is a 600-foot stretch that is only occasionally covered in snow, [...]

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Mother Nature? Eerie Crying Face Seen in Melting Glacier

It’s like the treehugger equivalent to Christians seeing Jesus or the Virgin Mary in everything from concrete walls to grilled cheese sandwiches: an eerie feminine face in a melting glacier that appears to be crying a river of tears.
The image was captured on the Austfonna ice cap in Norway by marine photographer and environmental lecturer [...]

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Q&A: Filmmaker Michael Brown Documents Shrinking Glaciers

Filmmaker and eco-activist Michael Brown documents melting glaciers around the world and can tell you from first-hand experience that the global ecology is in trouble.

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Rubber Ducks Deployed in Attempt to Track Melting Glacier

What was a rocket scientist’s solution to help figure out what’s happening inside the fastest-moving Greenland glacier? An army of rubber ducks. It sounds like a joke, but a U.S. rocket scientist really did send 90 rubber ducks into the ice in the hopes that someone will find them if they emerge in Baffin Bay.
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Scientists Warn that the North Pole May Have No Ice this Summer

What’s the North Pole without ice? Can you even imagine it? When there’s no ice at the North Pole, something is very very wrong. And indeed, scientists are predicting that Arctic sea ice may disappear entirely from the area this year. The disappearance of North Pole ice would be one of the most [...]

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Dramatic Photos of Melting Glaciers Just a Hoax?

We’ve all heard it: proclamations that global warming is ‘the biggest hoax ever perpetuated on the people of the world, bar none.’ (That quote, of course, comes courtesy of the renowned village idiot Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center). Global warming deniers think that the entire green movement is a conspiracy to take their [...]

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