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Tropical Climate History...Shrinking
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Published May 8, 2013
Perched high in the Andes, Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap stores centuries of climate change history in its ice. Its melting edges tell a more immediate climate story.
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Freshwater Stores Shrank in Tigris-Euphrates Basin
Published March 13, 2013
An arid region grew even drier between 2003 and 2009 due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture.
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Iran’s Great Salt Desert
Published February 17, 2013
The rocks of Dasht-e Kavir tell tales of a much wetter environment millions of years ago.
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Forests Near Colorado’s Flat Tops
Published December 22, 2012
The 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas tree — a 73-foot Engelmann spruce — hails from northwestern Colorado.
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Mergui Archipelago
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Published December 2, 2012
Composed of more than 800 islands surrounded by extensive coral reefs, the region shelters a high diversity of plants and animals.
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Fog in Argentina’s Lake District
Published November 17, 2012
Landsat 5 captured a ring of radiation fog lingering in valley bottoms and above lakes in northwestern Patagonia.
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