| A Cold Look at Planet Earth: Learning from the World's Frozen Places |
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 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Featured by USGS a member of the U.S. Global Change Research Program The recently published State of the Earth’s Cryosphere at the Beginning of the 21st Century summarizes past and present-day changes in the Earth’s cryosphere (the whole of its frozen water) and describes the ongoing and potential effects of those changes. Extensively illustrated in print and connected to a companion online image gallery, this volume supplies a synthesis for 10 other geographically-based volumes in the 11-volume Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. To learn more about how glaciers can help us understand major aspects of global environmental change click here. |
