George walked the 10 miles several times a week to attend the School for African american Children in Neosho Kan.
and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea according to a team of German scientists.
and flows out to sea it develops and drops icebergs as part of a natural and cyclical process Humbert said.
The glacier flows to the Amundsen Sea at a rate of about 2. 5 miles (4 km) per year.
or slows down is based more on changing wind directions in the Amundsen Sea and less by rising air temperatures.
The wind now brings warm sea water beneath the shelf ice Humbert said. Over time this process means that the shelf ice melts from below primarily at the so-called grounding line the critical transition to the land ice.
The Pine Island Glacier currently acts as a plug holding back part of the immense West Antarctic Ice Sheet whose melting ice contributes to rising sea levels.
and agricultural land for the herders and this number triples to about 465 square miles (1205 square km) of land an area about the size of modern-day Los angeles. Even so this area would take up just about 5 percent of the present-day Nile
These herds would have been spread out in villages across the Nile Delta then brought to the workers'town at Giza to be slaughtered and cooked.
but only after GMO proponents like Monsanto General mills Pepsico Dupont Hershey Cargill Kellogg Hormel Kraft Mars Goya Ocean Spray Nestle and other industrial food
The East Coast easily competed with the enormous Redwoods of the Pacific seaboard. At the time when Christopher Columbus landed in The americas it's said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground Chris Roddick chief arborist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New york told Livescience in 2009.
The sea of dead trees along ridgelines called that number into serious doubt Logan said.
and waterways and help people to have access to fresh food It's all connected. We are connected all.
She also launched a successful sea voyage to the land of Punt a place located somewhere on the northeast coast of Africa where they traded with the inhabitants bringing back oemarvels.
or the average length of time a molecule of gas exists in the atmosphere before being converted into another chemical compound or absorbing back into a sink like a forest or ocean.
They did radiocarbon dating of shells on the lake's shoreline finding the shells'ages matched those of the other samples from formerly wet areas.
and it pottery its wares being found in places as far flung as Cyrene (in Libya) and the island of Samos not far from the coast of modern-day Turkey.
When the Persians threatened Greek cities in Ionia on the west coast of what is now Turkey the Greeks who lived in those areas sent an emissary to Sparta to ask for help.
Located beside the coast Thermopylae contained a narrow passage which the Greeks blocked and used to halt Xerxes'advance.
Ultimately the conflict between Sparta and Athens resolved itself on the sea. While the Athenians had the naval advantage throughout much of the war the situation changed
In 378 B c. Athens formed the second naval confederacy a group that challenged Spartan control of the seas.
the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia beside the Eurotas the river the temple of Athena Chalcioecus (oeof the Bronze House) on the acropolis and the early Roman theater just below it.
In 1912 the Cape cod Cranberry Company started selling canned cranberry sauce under the now-familiar Ocean Spray name Bertelsen said.
Their stories were powerful and diverse telling tales of crop-crippling drought in farms across the midwest ravaging fires in the Sierra nevada mountains in the west and record-setting hurricanes and flooding along the east coast
and the Gulf of mexico. But all shared a common message: climate change is real and fueling more dangerous extreme weather events.
and record-breaking crop-damaging weather that has played havoc with agriculture in his state in recent years starting with a 500-year flood along the Missouri river in 2008
when Superstorm Sandy roared toward her vulnerable seaside community last October she and her husband evacuated.
and learning more about the costs associated with a warming world and rising seas. Rev.
So academic researchers from the University of Maryland and federal scientists from the Department of agriculture decided to collect pollen from seven major types of crops along the East Coast where CCD has been especially destructive where bees had been in serious decline
Stages of Cherry Blossom Blooms Three years later the Japanese sent more than 2000 young trees to be planted near the Potomac river as a symbol of the growing friendship between the two nations.
Instead the farming hotspots seemed to reside in the deep soil zones near the wetlands called bajos.
but rather along the borders of the low-lying wetlands called bajos BYU soil scientist Richard Terry said in a statement.
Just think of what hundreds more Produits du Sud companies could do to offer a bulwark against climate change
These forest islands were thought typically of as natural in origin for instance as landforms cut away by shifting rivers or long-term termite mounds or bird rookeries.
if they came from the Atlantic coast or they had to cross the Andes if they came from the Pacific Coast.
This suggests that either they moved and adapted to new environments extremely fast or they started their journey quite a long time ago.
An international team of researchers analyzed sediment cores collected in 2009 from Lake El'gygytgyn (pronounced El-Gee-Git-Kin) the oldest deep lake in the northeast Russian Arctic.
There was probably no sea ice and the whole Arctic was forested pretty well so it was a very different world Brigham-Grette told Livescience.
Earth's Vanishing Ice A window into the past Lake El'gygytgyn or Lake E as the researchers refer to it was formed 3. 6 million years ago when a meteorite hit Earth and carved out
The lake is one of the few Arctic areas not eroded by continental ice sheets during the ice ages meaning it has collected a continuous and undisturbed sediment record the researchers said.
The lake which today is covered in ice for most of the year is so deep that
Some of the changes we see going on now sea ice melting tree lines migrating and glaciers with tremendous ablation rate suggest that we're heading back to the Pliocene.
7 Crucial Tipping Points The results of this new study represent an important contribution toward understanding how Earth is affected by man-made greenhouse gases said Kate Moran an ocean engineer who was not involved with the study.
Moran is director of NEPTUNE Canada an underwater ocean observatory managed by the University of Victoria in British columbia.
and now the lake record provides us with another 100 pieces and the picture is starting to become more and more clear.
#Iceland Volcano Eruption Fueled Ocean Blooms The explosive volcanic eruption Iceland saw in 2010 may have disrupted life in the air above Europe
These three cruises allowed the researchers to measure iron concentrations at the ocean's surface before during
and could really look at the immediate effects of the ash falling into the ocean Achterberg said.
Iceland Volcano's Fiery Sunsets Ocean bloom Iron is key to ocean life helping spur the growth of single-celled organisms known as phytoplankton.
In about a third of the global ocean a scarcity of iron limits the abundance of life so ash supplying this metal could spur booms in biological activity.
Since phytoplankton use carbon dioxide just like plants do volcanic ash falling on the ocean could reduce levels of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
of iron to the seas. I'm not an advocate of dumping into the ocean to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide Achterberg said.
It's not a very efficient process. You'd need so much iron to remove the man-made carbon dioxide emitted at the moment that it wouldn't be worth it.
In the future researchers could investigate the effects of volcanic ash on the Southern Ocean which is relatively rich in nitrate.
#Imported Tortoises Could Replace Madagascar's Extinct Ones Two millennia ago millions of giant tortoises roamed Madagascar an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa that is rich in species found nowhere else On earth.
#Invasive Earthworms Harming Great lakes Forests DENVER Gardeners and farmers may love earthworms for their rich castings
but in forests near the Great lakes the creatures are alien invaders. No earthworms are native to North america's northern forests (massive ice age glaciers kept the land worm-free.
And in the sugar maple forests near the Great lakes the churning worms actually compact the upper soil layers instead of loosening them Resner said.
and the University of Santiago in Chile report they have now found the first evidence of Magellanic predation on Navarino Island a 955-square-mile (2473 square kilometers) island off the coast of Southern Chile by the American mink
#IPCC Green-Lights Kyoto Protocol, Wetlands Reports Countries tallying their total greenhouse gas emissions can now get a better estimate thanks to two new reports adopted this week by the Intergovernmental
and absorbed by wetlands. The reports will help countries improve their greenhouse gas emissions inventories Jean-Pascal van Ypersele vice chair of the IPCC said today (Oct 18) at a news conference announcing the final reports.
The new wetlands report fills in a substantive knowledge gap Thelma Krug co-chair of the IPCC's Task force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories said during the news conference.
Wetlands draining and rewetting is a new elective activity for reporting under the Kyoto Protocol Krug said.
and ocean warming said Gerald Meehl a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and one of the authors of the new report.
In the new summary climate scientists say they are at least 95 percent certain that people are responsible for the warming oceans rapidly melting ice
and rising sea levels that have been observed since the 1950s. The 2007 report linked human activities to climate change with 90 percent certainty which was a considerable leap from the 66 percent probability stated in the organization's 2001 report. 8 Ways Global
and the ocean in changes in the global water cycle in reductions in snow and ice in global mean sea level rise and in changes in some climate extremes the new report says.
The effects of climate change The new assessment also contains updated projections for various climate scenarios including sea level rise melting glaciers and rising global average temperatures.
If greenhouse gas emissions are curbed not sea levels could rise as much as 3 feet (0. 9 meters) by the year 2100 the scientists said.
Sea level rise is a real problem because it poses very high risks around coasts. Global temperatures are also likely to rise by between 0. 5 and 8. 6 degrees Fahrenheit (0. 3 degrees and 4. 8 degrees Celsius) this century depending on global levels
of carbon emissions. Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system Stocker said.
This research has been involved with a 50-year $626 million effort on the lower Colorado river that shows major genetics-based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation
and trailer because the nearby Redwillow River was so high. But in 2011 the researchers drove a truck across the river winched the boulder onto a trailer
and brought it out of the field. While Bell was preparing the fossil he discovered something even more amazing than skin impressions.
what would become the United states. It was located on Jamestown Island In virginia about 30 miles (47 kilometers) up the James river from the Atlantic coast.
The original fort site was surrounded by a triangular palisade with three bulwarks. Â Jamestown was not the first successful permanent European settlement in
I and the settlement and James river were named in his honor it was financed actually and run by the Virginia Company.
in addition to the Roanoke colonists other European adventurers had sailed along the east coast of North america some of
As they set out to sea however they encountered a fleet led by Lord De La Warr with fresh supplies
and charged that the company swept up women off the streets to found families across the ocean.
and launch new colonies (including Plymouth in 1620) along the eastern seaboard of the future United states. In May 1624 the Virginia Company was dissolved formally
It was believed widely at the time that the fort had been washed away into the James river. Excavations revealed that the archaeological remains were still present.
along with remains of three bulwarks used to strengthen its defences. They also found five churches (one replacing the other) row houses including a structure that appears to be the governor s house a blacksmith shop and barracks among other features.
Before the accident caused by the massive tsunami that inundated the coast in 2011 the country's sole plan for achieving greenhouse gas reductions focused on nuclear power.
and relay their positions for two to three years allowing researchers to figure out how quickly the glacier is flowing into the ocean.
Preliminary measurements show that the Pine Island Glacier's march to the sea is speeding up Gudmundsson told Ouramazingplanet.
By some estimates this glacier alone could be responsible for about 5 percent of global sea level rise
when it reaches the ocean. Instead the ice flows into the sea where it floats atop the water forming a platform of ice called an ice shelf.
Measurements have shown that the Antarctic ocean is warmer than it used to be and is melting the bottom of this ice shelf.
which as a result slides toward the ocean faster than before Gudmundsson said. And behind the Pine Island Glacier is an even larger section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet one of the largest in the world.
The glacier acts like a plug in a leaky dam and if it collapses it could have devastating consequences for global sea levels he added.
The same process happens in places like Scotland's Loch Ness where floating logs or large fish that might be considered unremarkable and mundane in other lakes might be reported as a Loch Ness Monster sighting simply
because the monster said to dwell there is so well known. Video: Haunted House in New jersey? The Jersey Devil is clearly a product of folklore
and living in Alberta and focused on the protection of watersheds I organized a canoe expedition down the Athabasca River.
The river is part of a lush watershed that flows through the heart of tar-sands mining
and drilling operations in Canada's pristine boreal forests. My goal was to draw attention to the dual threats of global warming
The river is declining as a result of receding glaciers and smaller snowpacks both of which are consequences of a warming climate.
and millions more gallons of toxic waste that would leach into the rivers from tailings ponds
Since I paddled down the Athabasca River the environmental devastation of the region has worsened only
#Lake ontario Facts Lake ontario is the smallest of all the Great lakes in surface area (7340 square miles/18960 square kilometers)
It holds about four times the water volume (393 cubic miles/1640 cubic km) as Lake erie
The easternmost of the Great lakes Lake ontario is positioned at the base of the Niagara falls. It is bordered by Ontario Canada to the southwest and north and New york to the south.
The St lawrence river provides the lake s outlet to the Atlantic ocean. The lake has a number of lagoons and baymouth bars
which are made formations of sand mud or other debris that close off bay areas. There are a number of islands on the lake including the Thousand Islands region
which is an archipelago of nearly 2000 islands that line the U s.-Canadian border. While many of the islands are small
Like all of the Great lakes Lake ontario as it is known today was the result of glacial shifting and melting at the end of the most recent Ice age.
The first European to see reach Lake ontario was Ãienne Brulã The french explorer and protã gã of Samuel de Champlain in 1612.
The lake has a rich history of commerce and trade especially following the War of 1812
The lake was a hub of commerce until the railroads were built and eclipsed the steamers as a way to move shipment.
Because of the lake s depth and the warm weather that comes in from the southwest Lake ontario rarely freezes over.
While the entire region is affected by lake-effect snow there is a prominent snow belt along the southeastern shore that can be deluged with 20 feet (600 cm) of snow annually.
The impact of the lake-effect snow can be felt as far as Syracuse N y
and steelhead are some of the fish that swim the waters of Lake ontario. Invasive mussels cover nearly half of the bottom of the lake in the coastal areas.
Lake ontario s climate is conducive to fruit tress and the area has become a major growing area for apples cherries peaches pears and plums.
Due to its location Lake ontario is host to a number of migratory birds. Swans loons ducks geese grebes and other water fowl are among the wildlife that inhabit Lake ontario.
Birds of prey such as hawks and eagles are also common in the area n
#Land of Giants: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks Giants live in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National parks. Soaring mountains rocky foothills deep canyons more than 200 marble caverns and the world's largest trees call these side-by-side parks home.
The highest mountain in the contiguous 48 states Mount whitney (with a peak at 14491 feet or 4417 meters) stretches across the Sequoia border.
The above photo of Aster Lake by Scott Toste was one of the contest favorites.
Aster Lake is a high alpine lake popular with backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts for its remote setting perfect spot to commune with giants.
At that time a shallow sea split North america in two and many animals lived on a long skinny continent called Laramidia that spanned from Alaska all the way to Mexico.
The narrow strip of coastline was a hotbed of dinosaur diversity. During this time period many of the iconic species from duckbilled dinosaurs to the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex flourished.
whether a male entered the nest first waited for the female to enter as signal that the coast was clear
In December a woman snapped pictures at Pompano Beach on Florida's Atlantic coast of swimmers who might have been trying to ride a sickly sperm whale.
LOS ANGELES Megalodon the most massive shark ever to prowl the oceans may have gotten so big that it was prone to extinction.
For some mysterious reason though the biggest and smallest members of the species were the same length many of the giant sea monsters got longer over a 14-million-year period
Ancient Monsters of the Sea Bigger is better? Megalodon could grow up to 60 feet (18 meters) long
The sea monsters terrorized the oceans from about 16 million to 2 million years ago.
Though the mega-sharks died off their close relatives great white sharks still terrorize the seas today.
and extinction of the top predator lineage that must have had a significant impact to the ocean ecology said Kenshu Shimada a paleobiologist at Depaul University in Chicago who was involved not in the study.
#Melting Sea Ice Keeps Hungry Polar bears On land Polar bears the iconic victims of climate change are shifting their migration patterns because of changes in sea ice.
 They found that the rate at which sea ice melts and re-freezes as well as how the ice is distributed around the bay predicted
Polar bears hunt their main food source seals primarily while on sea ice. Changes in the ice are driving the bears to spend more time on land where they have to go longer without eating
Climate-induced changes that cause sea ice to melt earlier form later or both likely affect the overall health of polar bears in the area Cherry said. 10 Odd Facts About Arctic Sea Ice Cherry
and colleagues fitted 109 female polar bears with tracking collars (males can't wear collars because their necks are wider than their heads).
When we look at the migration patterns of the collared bears it appears as though bears in recent years are arriving on shore earlier in the summer
The findings suggest that it's not only the distribution of sea ice that affects the bears'migration but how quickly that ice melts or forms.
a vegetable garden a grass lawn an area where pine trees are growing well a creek or river bank a field growing commercial crops such as wheat soybeans or corn.
Compared with people living on the coasts for example the Romans ate less fish. There were also differences among people living within Rome.
a Milestone</a p><p></p><p>Finding a giant oarfish washed up on the beach is a rare occurrence
</p><p>An 18-foot-long (5. 5 meters) oarfish carcass discovered on Oct 13 was considered a once-in-a-lifetime event for beachgoers on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California.
But that event was followed five days later by a second oarfish measuring 14 feet (4. 3 m) found on a beach in San diego County.</
Located near the east coast of the island of Sicily it is 10900 feet (3329 meters) tall with a base circumference of about 93 miles (150 kilometers.
and caused widespread damage to the town of Catania on the coast. Roman taxes were cancelled for 10 years to help locals rebuild.
which resemble the type of lava produced along deep sea trenches where mantle magma is forced through Earth s crust.
The volcano located in southwestern Washington used to be a beautiful symmetrical cone about 9600 feet (3000 meters) above sea level.
On shaky ground On March 1 1980 a new system of seismographs at the University of Washington went into operation to monitor earthquake activity in the Cascades.
By 8: 50 a m. massive mudflows were moving through the river systems to the west and southeast of Mount st helens.
Today Mount st helens and other volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest are monitored closely by geologists at the David A. Johnston Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver.
Amazonian Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon at least
the insects also readily get the salt from animal urine muddy river banks puddles sweaty clothes
China's Fuhe River was clogged last week with over 100 tons of dead silvery fish.
Officials attributed the deaths to toxic levels of ammonia dumped into the river from a local chemical factory.
http://www. nhstateparks. org/explore/state-parks/monadnock-state-park. aspx) Marinette County waterfalls Wisc.
And if you want to see more than just the leaves taking a driving tour of Marinette Countys waterfalls is a good bet for a pretty view.
The 125-mile-loop (200 kilometers) features a series of 14 falls and cataracts all surrounded by a blaze of autumnal color.
The area is open to hiking camping picnicking and whitewater rafting. The area is currently at 85 percent of its peak with the full peak expected in the third week of October according to Wisconsin's tourism site.
which winds for 2 miles up through the forest ending along an abandoned logging road that offers a stunning view of the triplet of volcanic peaks known as the Three Sisters according to Oregon Lakes & Rivers.
 The 52.2-million-year-old tomatillo was discovered at the fossil-rich Laguna del Hunco Argentina where ancient lakebeds interlayer with volcanic ashes providing paleontologists with precisely dated discoveries.
During his talk he listed 11 fossils from Laguna del Hunco such as cycads trees and the tomatillo that show their molecular clocks are too young.
#On Mozambique Coast, Food Grows Alongside Species Diversity (Op-Ed) Brendan Fisher is a research scientist for World Wildlife Fund (WWF.
and seascape consisting of sand islands coastal mangroves estuaries dry forests and farmland. It is where humpbacks whales mate on their southern migration down the coast;
a critical nesting area for hawksbills olive ridley sea turtles and green turtles; and a seascape with relatively unexplored reefs.
It is also one of the poorest regions in one of the world's poorest countries.
and supported by the CARE-WWF Alliance an increasingly popular and effective solution in such contexts and one of the key current approaches highlighted in the Rockefeller Foundation's Oceans and Fisheries strategy.
In our no-take fishing zones in Moma Estuary we carried out fish surveys with local fishermen.
Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench Tallest tree: The tallest tree in the world is a California coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) known as Hyperion.
The summit of Mount everest at 29035 feet (8850 m) is higher above sea level than the summit of any other mountain so many claim it's the world's tallest mountain.
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