Brown Glacier, Heard Island, had retreated by 50 metres over three years, with the lower slopes of the glacier having lost as much as 11 metres in thickness, while Collins Glacier, King George Island, retreated by some 200 metres between 1987 and 2005.

Jianchuan comes from Sichuan Province in southwest China.

The Shinano River is longer than any river in Japan.

While glaciers that cover more than five square kilometers have lost 12 of their mass, those under one square kilometer have lost 38 percent. Applying the overall ratio of mass lost to area covered, this means that the smallest (and most numerous) Himalayan glaciers lost up to 57 of their mass between 1960 and 2004.

The one glacier up in Greenland that puts more ice into the global ocean than all the other glaciers in the northern hemisphere combined is the Ilulissat Glacier.

The Himalayan glaciers have not stopped losing mass, although they are losing it at a somewhat slower rate than before. Evidence collected on 466 glaciers by the Indian Space Applications Center from 1962 to 2004 shows a 21 loss of glacier area and a 30.8 of glacier volume.

An emergency ambulance with a Chuan U license plate was driving into Beichuan at about 15 00, and Beichuan Traffic Police sent a police car to clear the way and escort the emergency ambulance into the controlled road segment by driving against the traffic.

They actually have these buses that drive up and over the lateral moraine and drop people off on the surface of the glacier.

This is Dr. Fan Jianchuan.

The route will not only facilitate Sichuan tourists' travel to the Czech Republic, but also make it easier for the Czech people to visit Sichuan.

And once again, it's this invitation that asks people to lay down on the glacier and give it a hug.

We're inundated with news all the time that the sea ice is disappearing and it's at its lowest level.

We also welcome Ms. Kawaguchi.

As the Arctic melts The rush to exploit its resources is starting Nobody will listen to her But they will listen to you

That's the retreat of this glacier.

The glaciers are actually leaving us.

Big Brother, Tibet, and the Sichuan Earthquake

Hello, are you Mr Ogawa?

One of my favorite glaciers, the Sólheimajökull.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

It is the first day of the National Day holiday in October 1. There is a surge in the vehicles heading for Mao County and Songpan County via Beichuan Qiang Minority Autonomous County in Sichuan.

This is a piece of multi year ice that's 12 years old.

This is pitched on a glacier at 17,500 feet.

I saw Shin'ichi in Kakogawa yesterday.

And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human glacier relations.

More than 20 Taiwan compatriots from the Taiwan Self driving Travel Association started their self driving tour in the city of Ningde, Fujian, on the early morning of August 12 to experience the natural landscape featuring mountains, sea, rivers and islands in the city.

We have reason to be afraid of melting ice caps.

But it's not just Chinese heroes he cares about.

But this glacier caved into the water and a seal got on it.

I have swum in front of glaciers which have retreated so much.

When I meet a glacier for the very first time, what do I do?

I really just don't even know how to say hello.

Glaciers are very important for the life on earth.

It is very important for us to love a river.

This lack of scientific basis did not stop countless global warming activists from citing the glacier prediction at every opportunity. When the Indian government suggested last year that the Himalayan glaciers were in better shape than the IPCC claimed, the IPCC s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, dismissed India s objections as being based on voodoo science.

And these cameras are positioned on rocks on the sides of the glaciers, and they look in on the glacier from permanent, bedrock positions, and they watch the evolution of the landscape.

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In terms of poverty relief through industry development, Alibaba has partnered Luochuan County in Shaanxi Province to create a Luochuan apple poverty relief through industry development model, which has been replicated and promoted nationwide as a model by relevant departments.

If you use wind, you guarantee ice will last.

We're now at the Columbia Glacier in Alaska.

Oceans come and go. Mountains come and go. Glaciers come and go.

And we wanted to find out and we see all kinds of glacial features on it.

This lake has been formed in the last couple of years because of the melting of the glacier.

And to the right hand side of us was this great Khumbu Glacier.

The BBC got their first wind of the Chinese quake from Twitter.