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A study by researchers of the University of Arizona and the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that greenhouse gases emitted by human beings can speed up the melting of icecaps at both the North and South poles, resulting in a global sea level rise of 4 to 6 meters per century, much faster than previously forecasted. |
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| In September 2009 Sydney was smothered under a blanket of red dust. The sandstorm left traffic across eastern Australia partially paralyzed. |
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| On August 1st, 2004, a penguin pecks on an icy dessert in a London Zoo. |
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| Hurricane Katrina was both a meteorological and political disaster for the United States in 2005. |
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| As global warming progresses, desertification increases at an accelerated pace in the Hexi Corridor region, Gansu Province, in Northwest China. |
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Rock where Genghis Khan is said to have hitched his horse, part submerged in the Hulun Lake. Lang Lixing
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The same rock, now on dry land far from the lake’s edge as the result of receding waters. Lang Lixing |
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| In Venice on December 1, 2008, a man wades down a submersed street. |
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