The End of Ice
Tags: GLOBAL warming; GLACIERS -- Alaska
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- THE LONG GOODBYE. Monastersky, Richard // New Scientist;04/14/2001, Vol. 170 Issue 2286, p30
Reports on the work of glaciologist Keith Echelmeyer to determine whether glaciers are shrinking as a result of global warming. Suggestion that environmentalists have been too quick to assume the glaciers are shrinking; Details of Echelmeyer's work flying over glaciers in Alaska using the...
- A Meeting of the Minds. // Scholastic News -- Edition 5/6;10/9/2006, Vol. 75 Issue 5, p2
The article highlights a conference of a group of mayors to discuss how to reduce U.S. cities' contributions to global warming. The Mayors signed letters pledging to go back to their cities to look for ways to reduce the use of fossil fuels. They met in Alaska to see the effects of global...
- BAKED ALASKA. Helmuth, Laura // Smithsonian;Aug2005, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p26
Mentions research that documents the loss of Alaskan glaciers to global warming. The work of U.S. Geological Survey geologist, Bruce Molnia, in collecting old photographs of Alaskan glaciers since the 1970s; Archives where he has found pictures; How Molnia finds the exact spot shown in the older...
- Mendenhall. Bledsoe, Lysbeth; Gnass, Jeff // Cortlandt Forum;4/25/96, Vol. 9 Issue 4, p53
Presents a description of the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. Photograph.
- Mendenhall Glacier. Bledsoe, Lysbeth // Cortlandt Forum;02/25/98, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p219
Features Mendenhall Glacier, a 12-mile-long glacier located north of Juneau, Alaska. Accessibility for tourists; Other attraction for ice-skaters in midwinter season.
- A glacier's surge brings a mighty flood. Weintraub, Boris // National Geographic;Aug95, Vol. 188 Issue 2, preceding p1
Reports on the surge of Alaska's Bering Glacier in the summer of 1994. Cause of the glacier surge; Distance travelled by the glacier during surges.
- Birth of a new sea? Carroll, Michael; Stover, Dawn // Popular Science;Aug93, Vol. 243 Issue 2, p23
Reports on studies conducted by the United States Geological Survey which indicate that the Bering Glacier may be in the process of creating a new arm of the Gulf of Alaska. Consequences of erosion of Seal Beach, which separates the glacier's dangerous icebergs and nearby shipping lanes in the...
- Speeding Glacier. Neistat, Van // Science World;10/04/99, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p6
Deals with the fast movement of Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound near Anchorage, Alaska. Speed rate of the glaciers; Explanation on the fast movement of the glaciers; Cause of the melting of the Columbia Glacier.
- Alaska's rivers of ice. McCarthy, Pat // Children's Digest;Jan/Feb94, Vol. 44 Issue 409, p4
Features the glaciers found in Alaska. Glaciers as rivers of ice; Description of how glaciers are formed; Movement of a glacier; Three main kinds of glaciers.
