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Detailed View of Arctic Sea Ice
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Published February 1, 2007
For many years, scientists have expected that climate change will be more rapid and dramatic at the poles than at lower latitudes, an expectation that has been demonstrated both with climate models and recent observations of snow and ice, surface temperatures, vegetation, and permafrost.
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Voyageurs National Park
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Published October 1, 2006
Established in 1975, the park saw fur traders nearly two centuries earlier, and it supported human inhabitants thousands of years before that. Today, almost a third of the park is water, and travel through the park is usually by boat.
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Salt Domes on Melville Island
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Published August 27, 2006
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Shiretoko National Park
Published August 13, 2006
Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula provides mostly temperate Japan with a taste of the Arctic.
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Land Between The Lakes
Published July 16, 2006
President Kennedy designated this area a National Recreation Area in 1963 as a demonstration site to explore how an area with limited value for agricultural or timber harvesting and no major industrial activity could be transformed into an economically productive recreation area.
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Published June 25, 2006
The park sits at the eastern edge of the Paunsaugant Plateau, and the ridgeline offers stunning views across southern Utah.
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Pinnacles National Monument
Published May 14, 2006
The landscape was formed as wind, water, and earthquakes carved away a 23-million-year-old volcano.
North Cascades National Park
Published May 7, 2006
Over 300 glaciers, about one-third of the glaciers in the Lower 48 states, lie within the park boundaries.
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Noril’sk, Northeast Siberia
Published April 30, 2006
Blue-white plumes of smoke (just left of image center) drift southeastward from smokestacks in Noril’sk. The deep and pale pinks downwind of the city, as well as the deep purple in the hillsides immediately outside Noril’sk, are moderately to severely damaged ecosystems. To the northeast of the river, the ecosystems appear healthier.
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