PHOTO GALLERY: ALPS
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Trift Glacier, Alps, France
September 27, 2006
Waterfall meets icefall on the Trift Glacier as the ice retreats. Since 1860, the Trift has emptied a huge basin full of ice, pulling back 9100 feet (2800 m.). The retreat in 2005 alone was... |
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Trift Glacier, Alps, France
September 18, 2006
Since 1860, melting of the Trift has emptied this entire basin of ice, pulling back 9100 feet (2800 m.). The retreat in 2005 alone was nearly 700 feet (215 m.) The vast majority ... |
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Glacier du Trient, Alps, Switzerland
September 18, 2006
Packed full of ice just a few decades ago, the bare bedrock of the Trient Glacier's basin shows the effects of warming. The tongues of ice are in the process of melting, breaking apart... |
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Rhone Glacier, Alps. Switzerland
September 27, 2006
The Rhone Glacier has retreated more than a mile (5800 ft. or 1200 m.) since precise measurements began in 1880. The retreat in 2006 was nearly 25 feet (7.6 m.). But measuring terminus... |
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Mer de Glace, Alps, France
September 18, 2006
A tourist walkway to the Mer de Glace is a graphic indicator of the glacier's shrinkage. In 1988, the walkway reached the ice at the highest extension of the walkway... |
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Mont Blanc, Alps, France
September 21, 2006
On the top left, the Leschaux Glacier drains from the Grandes Jorasses. The Talefre Glacier comes from bottom left. At right, the Mer de Glace drains from beneath Mt. Blanc. Until recently... |
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Trift Glacier, Alps, Switzerland
September 25, 2008
The Trift retreated nearly two miles since 1950; more than 3,000 feet worth of this pull back occurred in the past ten years. |
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