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Conservationists say about 70 percent of Presena Glacier’s snow is saved over the summer by using protective geotextile sheets.

NASA Glaciologists Kelly Brunt and Alex Gardner discuss the history, challenges, and evolution of mapping the Antarctic continent and what it means for science and society.



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1. Animation of the Iceberg

Two giant slabs of ice are about to hit each other in Antarctica, according to NASA exp
erts.
A 160 kilometre-long (100 mile) iceberg is on a collision course with a huge floating glacier in the...

1. NASA satellite images showing B-15A iceberg cracking in two between October 7 and October 9, 2003.

2. Split screen comparison of United States and Antarctica, zoom in to Long Island, New York and McMurdo Sound,...

AP Television

Near Matamata, North Island - 10 November
2010
1. Various of cows grazing o
n hillside
>AP Television
Auckland, North Islan
d - 11...

Punta Arenas, Chile - 16 October 2009

1. Wide city of Punta Ar
enas
2. Punta Arenas airport, "Carlos Iba�ez
del Campo"
3. Various of team of experts having a briefing
before take...

English/Nat

A study carried out by the World Wildlife Fund reveals that American and Canadian national parks offer no refuge from global warming, and some glaciers may even disappear within 30...

Goddard Space Centre, Maryland

1. NASA Glacier scientist Dr Robert Bindshadler looking at com
puter
2. Close-up of image showi
ng iceberg
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Robert Bindshadler, NASA Glacier...

Sonmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Recent 2009

1. Wide of Thajiwas glacier; water trickling down the mountains in the foreg
round
2. Various of melting...

In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until Tuesday, when a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its...

LEADIN:

Dogs can drive tens of millions of pounds to small businesses in the UK, according to new rese
arch.
...

LEADIN:

Dogs can drive tens of millions of pounds to small businesses in the UK, according to new rese
arch.
...

1. Wide of news conference

2. Close up of ca
mera
3. Cutawa
y of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change:
"It''s important...

HEADLINE: NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt

CAPTION: Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, NASA is flying researchers over the continent in a specially equipped plane...

1. Wide of Chacaltaya glacier monitoring station located on side of mountain

2. Wide of Chacaltaya gla
cier
3. Pan of exposed mountainside where glacier u
sed to be
4. Mid of exposed mountainside...

Washington DC, 7 December 1998

1. Various NASA animation - zoom in on Mars polar ic
e cap
2. Various NASA animation Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft
3. SOUNDBITE : (English) James Garvin, Goddard Spac
e...

An international team of scientists led by the renowned US glaciologist Lonnie G. Thompson will study glaciers in the Andes of Peru, the group announced on Thursday.

1. Animation showing Phoenix lander on Mars

2. Various animations showing Phoenix taking a soil s
ample
3. STILL: Various photos showing where Martian soil has be
en scooped
4. STILL: photo...

Glacier du Talefre - 13 May 2008

1. Wide of Mt Blanc, from the Glacier du Tal
efre.
2. Timelapse clouds
above Alps
3. Various heli
copter leaving
4. Interiors of...

1. Wide of former United States vice president and climate campaigner, Al Gore, walking up to podium

2. Various of Gore at podium giving present
ation
3. Close-up of computer generated, thermal representation...

1. Wide of ice cube in front of Brandenburg Gate, Greenpeace sign reading in English: "Save the climate!"

2. Close of Greenpeace sign reading in English: "Save the clim
ate!"
3. Close of
ice...

Pasadena, California - 27 May 2008

1. Wide shot of NASA news confe
rence
2. NASA animation of Phoenix M
ars Lander
3. Animation of Phoenix Mars Lande
r's robotic arm
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Fuk Li,...

1. Wide aerial of broken ice in Sermilik Fjord

2. Wide aerial of Helheim Gla
cier
3. Aerial of where Glacier meets Sermi
lik Fjord
4. Close-up aerial of edge of H
elheim Glacier...