From pictures of senior middle school students in China carrying out military training and swimmers about to embark on a triathlon to an aerial view of
a glacial river in Iceland and camels walking in a line along a famous beach in Australia — each one is as stunning as the last.
There was no way to go anywhere but forward: further into
this glacial river in rural Iceland.
Not exact matches
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in Bigfork, Montana where
glacial rivers empty into Flathead Lake.
The
river sands are topped with a thick layer of coarser sediment that signals the onset of
glacial erosion
in the valley, the researchers found.
Record high temperatures
in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and
glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus
River System.
The concentrations of dissolved phosphate the researchers found
in the Leverett Glacier meltwater — which is just one form of phosphorus found
in the meltwater — were similar to concentrations found
in Arctic
rivers, and among the highest levels recorded
in glacial meltwaters worldwide.
The proportions of the canyon, as well as its meandering path, suggest that the feature was carved by a great
river well before the island was coated with ice, not by
glacial action
in the years since.
A spiderweb of small
rivers form, cutting channels
in the ice and spilling into a series of
glacial tarns at the mouth of the basin.
As much a third of the
glacial ice above the crater has melted — it had been up to 250 meters thick
in spots — raising the level of a nearby
river by nearly a meter and covering some roads.
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glacial mud sustainably gathered from the Copper
River Delta
in Alaska.
The little Disco handled deep snow, roads made of ice, slush,
glacial rivers and real glaciers
in the land of constant volcano explosions — and it lived to tell the tale.
Forty minutes from downtown Anchorage lies Eagle
River Nature Center, a gateway to Chugach State Park and a glacial river valley as wild and dramatic as any in Al
River Nature Center, a gateway to Chugach State Park and a
glacial river valley as wild and dramatic as any in Al
river valley as wild and dramatic as any
in Alaska.
Go on a ranger - led hike
in a
glacial valley, raft down the wildlife - rich Snake
River, and cruise the emerald waters of Jenny Lake.
Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest
glacial ice fields
in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise
rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!
This 16 - mile route is great for beginners and follows the Little Susitna
River, a blue, glacial river with big boulders i
River, a blue,
glacial river with big boulders i
river with big boulders
in it.
Gaupnefjorden branch of Sognefjorden is strongly affected by freshwater as
glacial river flow
in.
The mountains were incredible; tall, covered
in fresh green grass, and the valley was crossed by a
glacial river.
The Nine Great Walks span 550 km of spectacular New Zealand terrain from the alpine peaks of the Tongariro Northern Circuit to the rainforests of the Heaphy Track, golden beaches, a stunning
river journey and the
glacial valleys of one of the finest walks
in the world, the Milford Track right here
in my own, Read More
The climb begins
in the valley of the Animas
River before the canyon narrows, all roads vanish, and for 30 miles there exists only the railroad, the
glacial green waters of the Animas and the 3,657 to 4,267 - metre peaks of the San Juan Mountains.
A multi-screen video installation exploring the
glacial rivers and ice
in Iceland and implications of a changing climate
in the far north.
The effects of glacier retreat would become evident during the dry season, particularly
in the west where
glacial melt is more important to the
river systems.
Some 22 percent of its
glacial endowment, which feeds the many Peruvian
rivers that supply water to the cities
in the semi-arid coastal regions, has disappeared.
Similarly,
glacial melt,
glacial lake outburst floods and drought
in the Himalayan
rivers can affect more than one country.
In the Andes,
glacial melt water supports
river flow and water supply for tens of millions of people during the long dry season.
He calculated that remineralizing the soil with
river, seashore, mountain and
glacial rock dust, would enable American agriculture to produce four times as much food or the same amount with a 25 % reduction
in cost, without the need for pesticides or chemical fertilizers.»
From historic droughts around the world and
in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing
glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms
in lakes,
rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.
In the Himalayas, the
glacial system provides water and sediment to the intensively tilled valleys of the Indus, Amu Darya, Ganga (Ganges), Brahmaputra, Yellow, Yangtze, Sutlej, Mekong and Nu / Salween, and these
river systems nourish food production and sustain the lives of millions.
Regarding Bangladesh, there was something
in the press about a year ago that said Bangladesh is actually ADDING land area, because so much dirt /
glacial silt is washed down the huge
rivers, and is deposited
in the deltas, so that even with sea level rise, more land is created.
Numerous peer - reviewed publications describe implications of recent increases, but likely longer - term declines,
in water input from
glacial rivers to reservoirs and therefore hydropower resources.67, 5,68
Loss of
glacial volume
in Alaska and neighboring British Columbia, Canada, currently contributes 20 % to 30 % as much surplus freshwater to the oceans as does the Greenland Ice Sheet — about 40 to 70 gigatons per year, 66,78,63,57,64,58 comparable to 10 % of the annual discharge of the Mississippi
River.79 Glaciers continue to respond to climate warming for years to decades after warming ceases, so ice loss is expected to continue, even if air temperatures were to remain at current levels.
In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze
River basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on
rivers, the loss of
glacial - fed, dry - season flow will shrink harvests and could create unmanageable food shortages.
The scientists focused their study on four large glaciers
in Nepal's Dudh Kosi
river basin, which holds 400 square kilometres of
glacial ice.
The Yellow
River basin only marginally depends on
glacial melt; thus there is a notable 9.5 per cent increase
in upstream water yield
in the basin with an estimate of an increase of 3.0 ± 0.6 million people that can be fed
in the Yellow
River basin.
Part of the water flow
in these
river basins depends on snow and
glacial melt to perennial
rivers, such as the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong and Yangtze (9).
There has been no long - term comprehensive
in - situ monitoring of
glacial melt contributing to the knowledge of hydrology
in the
river basins of the Himalayan region.
In 2010 geologists found evidence for a Dryas trigger in a massive release of glacial meltwater, as Broecker had predicted, only by way of the Mackenzie River system of northern Canada rather than the St. Lawrence, Murton et al. (2010
In 2010 geologists found evidence for a Dryas trigger
in a massive release of glacial meltwater, as Broecker had predicted, only by way of the Mackenzie River system of northern Canada rather than the St. Lawrence, Murton et al. (2010
in a massive release of
glacial meltwater, as Broecker had predicted, only by way of the Mackenzie
River system of northern Canada rather than the St. Lawrence, Murton et al. (2010).
I wonder if the rate of sediment deposition will actually increase as
glacial melting increases
in the Himalayas, before slowing again as the major
rivers of South Asia become fed more by rain alone than by seasonal
glacial melting.
Higher elevation areas could experience altered water flow
in some
river basins if current rates of
glacial retreat continue, but shifts
in the location, intensity, and variability of rain and snow due to climate change will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies.
The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of
river regimes due to enhanced
glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes
in thawing permafrost; decrease
in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads
in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes
in deglaciated terrain; changes
in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes
in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities
in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation
in the Arctic.
In 1981, a glacial lake outburst flood in the river basin washed away several bridges, including the China - Nepal Friendship Bridge along the Araniko Highway, said Pradeep K. Mool, a glaciologist at ICIMOD in Kathmand
In 1981, a
glacial lake outburst flood
in the river basin washed away several bridges, including the China - Nepal Friendship Bridge along the Araniko Highway, said Pradeep K. Mool, a glaciologist at ICIMOD in Kathmand
in the
river basin washed away several bridges, including the China - Nepal Friendship Bridge along the Araniko Highway, said Pradeep K. Mool, a glaciologist at ICIMOD
in Kathmand
in Kathmandu.