TITLE

Is Earth Losing Its Cool?

PUB. DATE
April 1999
SOURCE
Junior Scholastic;04/12/99, Vol. 101 Issue 16, p5
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports evidence of global warming according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Depletion of ice cover of Greenland; Causes and implications of global warming; Contributions of humans to incidence of global warming.
ACCESSION #
1741356

Tags: GLOBAL warming;  UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration;  ICE caps

 

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