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That means that I use radar to study glaciers and ice sheets.
Now, I know you're thinking, "There are no glaciers at Big Sur."
And there's a volcano behind, which has glaciers at the very top.
But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic are also receding right now to the point that the ice is ending up on land and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.
Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves.
And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human-glacier relations.
The glaciers are actually leaving us.
And so I actually live in Canada now, so I've been visiting one of my local glaciers.
And this one's particularly interesting, because, of all the glaciers in North America, it receives the highest volume of human traffic in a year.
And my urging is that when we think about environmental issues that we remember that it's not just about melting glaciers and ice caps, but it's also about our children as well.
With advances in ancient DNA technology, we can actually now start to begin to sequence the genomes of those other extinct mammoth forms that I mentioned, and I just wanted to talk about two of them, the woolly and the Columbian mammoth, both of which were living very close to each other during glacial peaks, so when the glaciers were massive in North America, the woollies were pushed into these subglacial ecotones, and came into contact with the relatives living to the south, and there they shared refugia, and a little bit more than the refugia, it turns out.
And so a punch card can hold about 80 characters, and you can fit about 2,000 or so cards into a box, and you put them in, say, my home region of New England, it would cover the entire region up to a depth of a little less than five kilometers, which is about three times deeper than the glaciers during the last ice age about 20,000 years ago.
We traveled up and down one of the largest and most dangerous glaciers in the world, the Beardmore glacier.
At the Third Pole, 2,000 glaciers are melting fast, faster than the Arctic.
Glaciers and sea ice that have been with us for millennia are now disappearing in a matter of decades.
I came to climate change not as a scientist or an environmental lawyer, and I wasn't really impressed by the images of polar bears or melting glaciers.
And this estimation is made without considering other types of caves, like, for example, inside glaciers or even volcanic caves, which are not karstic, but are formed by lava flows.
Meteorologists and environmental scientists show the growth of major hurricanes and the recession over the years of many of the world's glaciers.
The waters could be coming from as far away as glaciers in the Andes, then seeping down deep into the earth and coming out to form the boiling river after getting heated up from the geothermal gradient, all due to this unique geologic setting.
Our glaciers are melting, causing flash floods and landslides, which in turn are causing disaster and widespread destruction in our country.
Orbiters also tell us that there are huge amounts of underground water on Mars as well as glaciers.
The melting glaciers in Greenland are one of the largest contributing factors to rising sea levels, which have already begun to drown some of our world's lowest-lying islands.
The images that more readily come to mind are things like retreating glaciers and polar bears adrift on icebergs.
Of the remaining 3% of potentially usable freshwater, more than two-thirds is frozen in ice caps and glaciers.
I kept going back to the same articles, reading them again and again, on glaciers, Antarctica and Greenland.
Glaciers come and go.
No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is, but remarkably, it draws on fact: For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.
But before we get to that fascinating phenomenon, it’s important to understand the difference between glaciers that grow in the wild, and those that humans create.
In the wild, glaciers require three conditions to grow: Snowfall, cold temperatures, and time.
At the confluence of three great mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush, some local cultures have believed for centuries that glaciers are alive.
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