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- noun Plural form of
glacier .
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Examples
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The larger problem with melting of the glaciers is the loss of fresh water sources that a few billion humans depend upon for life (drinking water, irrigation of crops, filling swimming pools, keeping golf courses in the desert green, etc.).
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Overall, one can say incontrovertibly that the debris on our glaciers is very high, the mass balance is very low, the snow balance is very low.
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Do you have any valid science that shows that total ice mass of the Himalayan glaciers is not significantly decreasing?
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Similar discoveries have been made in glaciers or in permafrost from Alaska to Siberia.
How global warming is aiding – and frustrating – archaeologists Robin McKie 2010
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Rocky Mountain glaciers lowest ever entering the spring.
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Ramesh: The health of glaciers is a cause for serious concern.
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Like all natural systems, the formation and deformation of glaciers is extraordinarily complex, enough so to warrant an entire branch of science (glaciology).
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Alaska experienced "a net increase or advance in glaciers"
One year down, four more to go before the North Pole ice caps disappear in the summer months Not a sheep 2009
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Like all natural systems, the formation and deformation of glaciers is extraordinarily complex, enough so to warrant an entire branch of science (glaciology).
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In 1868 he went to the Yosemite Valley, California, from which he took many trips into Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, inspired by his interest in glaciers and forests.
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