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How do glaciers grow in world's largest desert? An Alabama professor explains
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAntarctica is the world's largest desert. It is also covered in ice sheets that are 4 kilometers...
A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
The Atlantic· 5 days agoThis was a NASA mission. Bayou appointed himself our Neil Armstrong. In the ensuing days, we were scheduled to set up four identical sites in a long...
University of Alabama professor plays key role in study of 'Doomsday Glacier'
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoScientists discovered that sea levels were dramatically lower during the last ice age. In that ice ...
Newly discovered polar shipwreck may contain intriguing artifacts
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe men floated on an ice floe and used lifeboats to reach the uninhabited Elephant Island....
South Australia’s enigmatic pink sand was born in ice-covered Antarctic mountains, new research...
The Conversation· 5 days agoIn parts of South Australia, long stretches of beach are often blanketed in large patches of pink sand. Strong swells can dump drifts of reddish grains of garnet along the shore – but the origin ...
Ship on which famed explorer died found on ocean floor
CBS News· 5 days agoThe ship sank, but Shackleton and his entire crew survived the episode. Seven years later, in 1922,...
Ship of renowned polar explorer Ernest Shackleton found on ocean floor
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoShipwreck experts found Ernest Shackleton’s last vessel on the ocean floor 62 years after its...
9 Classic Travel Books to Inspire Your Next Epic Trip
AFAR· 4 days agoIf you’ve missed reading these classic travel books, you can make up for it now. A Time of Gifts...
Senior citizen sells house to scale world’s highest peaks
MSN News· 4 days agoSeeing the ‘Jalur Gemilang’ flying majestically on the peak of a mountain he just "conquered” never...
Former reporter Randy Travis has run 32 Peachtree Road Races, 47 marathons
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 5 days agoRandy Travis, the longtime investigative reporter at Fox 5 who recently retired, was diagnosed with...