A crystalline iceberg drifts in Columbia Bay near Valdez, Alaska. The source of this iceberg, the Columbia Glacier, has lost more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) of ice since 1984. In May 2007, members of the ongoing Extreme Ice Survey, including founder James Balog, were setting up cameras at Columbia Glacier when they witnessed one of the largest glacial calving events ever seen. A similar event filmed later at Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier made the one at Columbia look small.
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Over a 35-day period from January 31 to March 7, 2002, Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf lost a total of about 1,255 square miles (3,250 square kilometers),one of the largest shelf retreats ever recorded. This image, captured by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor on February 23, shows the shelf mid-disintegration, spewing a cloud of icebergs adrift in the Weddell Sea. In December 2007, a team of National Geographic explorers will begin a five-week expedition across the continent's Larsen ice shelf to study how global warming is changing the topography of Antarctica.
Low-growing tundra vegetation displays fall colors in California's Kings Canyon National Park.Alpine tundras exist worldwide at altitudes above the mountain treeline.
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Bare rock and meltwater pools mark the edge of the shrinking Harrison Glacier in Montana's Glacier National Park. Of the 150 glaciers found in the park a century ago, only 27 remain. And scientists predict that by2030, those will all be gone.
In 2008, photographer James Balog, founder of the Extreme Ice Survey, and several research colleagues will return to the 26 solar-powered cameras they've installed at 16 glaciers worldwide to download the photographs taken so far. Balog hopes to release some images to the public immediately.
Goodbye Glacierhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090407-polar-melting-video-ap.html
Runoff from the Bockkogel Glacier in the Tirol region of Austria plunges down a waterfall during the Alpine summer. Throughout the Alps, glaciers have been in decline for 150 years, a result of rising global temperatures. Most scientists who study the phenomenon attribute it in part to greenhouse gases that humans have pumped into Earth's atmosphere.Retreating glaciers, rising seas, and shrinking lakes are some of the global changes already under way.
Hunched against the elements, ecologist Bill Fraser counts Adélie penguins. This colony dwindled from 320 breeding pairs to 54 between 1990 and 2004. Average winter temperatures here have increased nearly 9 degrees Fahrenheit over five decades, and sea ice has retreated by a fifth since the mid-1970s, depriving Adélies of an important feeding platform from which they hunt krill. "The Adélies are the canaries in the coal mine of climate change in the Antarctic," says Fraser.
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企鸸: 怎么冰块越来越小了? 快打电话给北极熊!!!问他发生什么事。。。
企鸸: 北极熊怎么冰块越来越小了? 北极熊: 都是人类咯!!!我自身难保阿!!! Polar bears Norway's Hinlopen Strait—live on the Arctic ice, hunting seals and other fatty marine mammals.
But as the ice vanishes, some experts predict this predator will also disappear from the Arctic by 2050.