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Currents, sea ice, glaciers, and the blue engine of Earth’s climate.
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The melting Alaska glacier that wears the scars of climate change
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Juneau races to find ‘lasting solution’ to annual glacial floods
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'Losing our history and identity'??? Three B.C. glaciers on the brink of extinction - SFU News
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (811+ words) Three much-loved glaciers in British Columbia are set to disappear completely within a few decades, according to a Simon Fraser University study. Once famous across North America for summer skiing, Whistler and Horstman glaciers have decreased in size by 95 per…...
On a melting glacier in Alaska, there’s 'something most people will never see"
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Currents in an Arctic sea accelerate the sinking of carbon-carrying phytoplankton
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Portsmouth Scientist Leads Kids' Deep-Sea Adventure
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The Mysterious Devil’s Arrows Stones Appeared in England 4,000 Years Ago. Scientists Just Learned Where They’re From.
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The Arctic sea ice melt season grew longer for decades, but something strange happened around 2010
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35,000-Year-Old Mammoth Bone Tool Reveals Early Plant Fiber Rope-Making
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