Mount Everest looms in the distance. Its snow and ice-capped peak gleams in the sunshine. The Himalayan glacier is a fragile ecosystem, which environmentalists warn could soon disappear. Greenpeace says that as global warning increases temperatures a

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

Some are remain length of the last ice-age, and alpine glaciers are quickly disappearing. There was hard strong evidence that years of rising temperatures are melting away austral gob ice berg glacier. Records here day back to the 19th century, and

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AS IT IS 2015-09-01 Andean Glaciers Reveal Secrets of Climate Change 安第斯冰川揭示气候变化的秘密 Ice caps, very large sheets of ice, do not only exist at the earths poles. There are tropical ice caps in mountain ranges, too. The larges

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37 Icebergs Icebergs are among natures most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being ----- somewhere ------in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashi

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It's the coldest, utmost wind-swept place on earth. Technically it is the biggest desert in the world. Few animals or plants survive here. And with a land area nearly 60 times bigger than Britain, it holds 90 percent of the world's ice. Now the big f

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And one reason is, this enormous heat sink heats up Greenland from the north. 有一个原因,北方沉积的大量热能加热了格陵兰岛。 This is an annual melting river. But the volumes are much larger than ever. 这是一条每年融化的河

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Melting Glaciers on Climate Talk List in Paris 巴黎气候变化大会探讨冰川融化 Terrorist attacks in Paris are not expected to stop the United Nations from hosting a major climate conference in that city. Next week nearly 120 heads of state

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当他游过北极后,Lewis Pugh发誓他再也不会在跳入冷水里。然后,他听说了珠穆朗玛峰的映佳湖 -- 一个整个湖水是由冰川融化的在5300米高度的湖面--这里不仅仅教授了他一种新的游泳态度

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【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料,致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高,致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。 精听建议: 先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍,争

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As five European foreign ministers meet in Copenhagen to prepare for an aggreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, scientists in Greenland are warning about accelerated glacier melts. Several years ago, scientists reported that the Helheim Glacier, su

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210 八国首脑会议第二日暴力冲突加剧 G-8 Summit Day Two - More Violence Paula Wolfson Genoa 21 Jul 2001 16:25 UTC Demonstrators are back on the streets of Genoa, Italy, for a second day,

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The United States has joined China and South Korea in criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine. In an email interview, a US State Department spokesperson told CCTV that although Japan is a valued ally and friend

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The 8,844-meter-high Mt. Qomolangma, located on the border of China and Nepal, is the world's highest mountain. 珠穆朗玛峰高8844米,位于中国和尼泊尔边境上,是世界上最高的山峰。 Glaciers on Mount Qomolangma have shrunk by

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〖melt the snow〗 --Shayne Ward Wooooh 喔~~~ Sometimes, On My Window 有时候,我的窗 I Notice That You've Been Crying Over Here.. 我注意到你在那哭 Woooh 喔~~~ And I Wonder 我吃惊 Why you just don't 为什么你不 Kick into the club instead of living here

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With temperatures rising four times faster than anywhere else in Asia, the Tibetan Plateau might soon lose most of its glacier and permafrost, affecting water supplies throughout Asia, Chinese scientists say. 青藏高原的气温上升速度比亚洲其

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Peru is home to the Quelccaya ice cap, the largest tropical glacier on Earth that is located at approximately 5100m above sea level. But it is shrinking. The Andean nation has 71 percent of the world's tropical glaciers, but the Peruvian glaciers hav

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Icebergs Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being -- somewhere -- in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbul

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At Least One-Third of Himalayan Ice to Disappear by 2100 At least one-third of the ice in the Himalayan Mountains will disappear by the end of this century because of rising temperatures, scientists said this week. This will threaten river flows that

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At Least One-Third of Himalayan Ice to Disappear by 2100 At least one-third of the ice in the Himalayan Mountains will disappear by the end of this century because of rising temperatures, scientists said this week. This will threaten river flows that

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: One study published in the journalEnvironmental Research Letters found that if the Arctic sea ice melts, Englandwill probably get a little rainier. 一篇发表在《环境研究通讯》期刊的研

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