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Perito Moreno Glacier

Learn about the formation of glaciers and how moraines, valleys, and lakes develop

glacier research

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Hubbard Glacier

Gornergletscher (Gorner Glacier

Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

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Glacier off coast of Argentina, South America. (glacial; snow; ice; blue ice; melting glacier)

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In late August 2016, sunlight returned to the Antarctic Peninsula and unveiled a rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf that had grown longer and deeper over the austral winter

A Trillion Tonnes of Antarctica Fell into the Sea

Ash cloud rising from the Kilauea Volcano Pu`u `O `o as crater floor collapses due to magma withdrawal. Incandescent rubble can be seen crumbling and rolling down the scarp. East rim of Pu`u `O `o is in the foreground, Kilauea, Hawaii on March 6, 2011.

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8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

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Perito Moreno Glacier

Hubbard Glacier

Gornergletscher (Gorner Glacier

Alaska: Mendenhall Glacier

Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park

Learn about the formation of glaciers and how moraines, valleys, and lakes develop

glacier research

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Examine glacial scratches on rocks from Switzerland to New York City for evidence of Earth's icy past

How greenhouse gases affect Earth's climate

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Glacier off coast of Argentina, South America. (glacial; snow; ice; blue ice; melting glacier)

What’s the Difference Between a Glacier and an Ice Floe?