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Yellow River Delta, China
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Published January 4, 2009
China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.
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Tripoli, Libya
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Published November 9, 2008
Deserts cover Libya’s interior, but cities such as Tripoli have expanded along the fertile lowlands of the country’s coast.
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Penny Ice Cap in 1979 and 2000
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Published September 18, 2008
Penny Ice Cap is the southernmost of Canada’s big ice caps. Like other glaciers and ice caps in the Northern Hemisphere, the Penny has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades.
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