'The Icefield is said to feed up to 80 per cent of Canada's drinking water, ' he says, 'but most of this glacier's volume has been lost since the 1920s.
Jungfrau-Aletsch, for instance, located on a Unesco World Heritage-designated glacier's edge, can be accessed by rail, bus, bike or foot.
Die-hards can spend up to 15 hours climbing the glacier's almost vertical north face, but moderate hikers prefer this wind-whipped, 90-minute scramble, where the spectacular views more than compensate for any burning thighs.
Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
The phenomenon of sedimentary layers is remarkably similar to what is seen on Earth, in California's Death Valley or in Montana's Glacier National Park, says John Grotzinger, chief scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Near the Carbon River entrance to the park, Sunrise offers some of the most sweeping views of Mount Rainier's peak and of Emmon's Glacier, which, at 4.3 square miles, has the largest surface area of any glacier in the contiguous United States.
She likes geology, so last summer she joined a University of California expedition to collect samples from a glacier in India's Garwhal Himalayas.
In the name of climate change science, researchers at NASA have dropped 90 rubber ducks into holes of Greenland's fastest moving glacier: the Jakobshavn Glacier in Baffin Bay.
The giant ice island is 46 square miles, and separated from the terminus of the Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest.
The Parkway's visual highlights also include the glacier-fed, extraordinarily turquoise Peyto and Bow Lakes.
Since 1996, energy balance measurements have been carried out in the vicinity of the mean equilibrium line 5150 m a.s.l. on Zongo Glacier 2.1 km .
They said glacier wastage had been seriously underestimated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is trying to assess humanity's influence on the global climate.
In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, "The Lovely Bones" is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens. (There's no indication that Susie gets raped, as she does in the novel, and her murder occurs off screen.) "Atonement's" terrific Ronan, with her astonishing glacier-blue eyes, watches from a scenic afterlife as her father (Mark Wahlberg), mother (Rachel Weisz), younger siblings, and selected friends simultaneously heal from their loss and search for her killer.
Some scientists say the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia, which used to be the world's highest ski run, has already nearly disappeared.
The area's main lure has always been the chance to clamber on a glacier.
"While probing through the debris roughly 30 meters below the glacier surface, Chenoweth found a broken rope" matching the Japanese team's rope.
Jason Box, a scientist with Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, has also been monitoring the Petermann Glacier and in September 2011 he told OurAmazingPlanet that a growing crack likely would sever the glacier once warmer weather took hold during the summer months.
The world average for glacier melt is 1.2 meters per year, but in Greenland it's much faster.
However you pronounce it, it's a mouthful that is really three words in Icelandic meaning island mountain glacier.
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