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Polar Thaw: Global Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic
Photographs from 'World View of Global Warming' by Gary Braasch

 
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Link: Journey to the ice
Link: Glacier gives way
Link: Warming Adelie penguins
Link: Garden research
Link: Caribou crossing a climate watershed
Link: Native folkways eroding away
 Link: Disintegrating ice shelf
Link: Polar thaw bears down
Link: Adelie penguins
Link: Boreal overview
Link: Dying forests
Link: Tipping the balance



DISINTEGRATING ICE SHELF, Lallemand Fjord.Photo from World View of Global Warming by Gary Braasch

After a 400-year cooling period, the Müller Ice Shelf is now receding, like others in the area. Ice shelves can be a sensitive indicator of rising temperatures. Evidence from sediment and glacial core samples indicates previous periods of warmth in Antarctica's history. However, present temperatures appear to be the warmest in 500 years.

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