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In this episode, we are joined by Camille Härdi from Rhaetian Railways, operators of the premium panoramic train known as the Bernina Express. The Bernina Express is one of the great train journeys of the world and it connects Chur and St. Moritz in Switzerland with Tirano in Italy. Camille has lots of great info to share with us including the highlights of the ride, what to expect onboard the Bernina Express, how far in advance you should book seat reservations, the best side of the train to sit on, and much more.Listen now to learn about:The premium panoramic train known as the Bernina ExpressThe highlights of the Bernina Express routeThe most picturesque section of the journeyServices and facilities onboard the trainThe best side of the train to sit onTickets and seat reservationsThe operating schedule of the Bernina ExpressRegular trains versus the Bernina Express - what is the differenceCamille's top tips for anyone planning a ride on the Bernina ExpressFor further information and the full show notes from this episode, visit https://holidaystoswitzerland.com/episode73>> Visit our shop for helpful Switzerland travel guides and resources.Connect with us:WebsiteInstagramFacebook groupNewsletterThis podcast is sponsored by Switzerland Tourism. #ineedswitzerland
A fun loving yet serious conversation with the inaugural Shackleton Award winner and research scientist, Dr. Heïdi Sevestre - covering glaciers, Climate Change, science communication, and her newly released book.
An incredible conversation with the inaugural Shackleton Award winner and research scientist, Dr. Heïdi Sevestre - covering glaciology, modern day expeditions, and her emphatic love of ice - all against the backdrop of fighting anthropogenic Climate Change.
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Episode 133: Top Dad Matt heads to Colorado to celebrate a lifelong friend's 40th birthday party while Top Dad Ken stays at home and searches for the lost Goofy doll. A Top Dad's job may not be easy but it's definitely never boring. Bonus Tip:What the heck is a Glacier... it's just a bunch of ice, right? Thank you for listening and taking this journey with us. Please follow us on social media for great Top Dad tips, tricks, jokes, and hacks. TopDadpod.comWant to help the show?The best way to help the Top Dad podcast is to share our podcasting gold with your friends and family or consider leaving a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and following us on Spotify.Listen to Top Dad for free wherever you listen to podcasts or go to TopDadpod.com for all our socials and contact information.
Ice is an important facet of Earth's climate system. Since ice affects our climate and sea levels, understanding the way ice sheets develop and change over time helps us better predict the future of our planet. So, what are researchers finding? Dr. Alexander Robel joins the podcast to enlighten us… Dr. Robel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech University, and serves as the head of the Ice and Climate research group. By studying the causes of ice sheet change, Dr. Robel is on a mission to develop conceptual, mathematical, and computational tools to predict future changes. Offer: Magnesium is integral for 600+ biochemical processes in the human body. The common misconception is that consuming more magnesium will automatically improve health and well-being. The truth is that there are various forms of magnesium, each of which is essential for a variety of physiological processes. Most people are inadequate in all forms of magnesium, while even those considered "healthy" typically only ingest 1 or 2 kinds. Consuming all 7 of magnesium's primary forms is the key to accessing all its health benefits.That's why we packed 7 forms of 450mg of elemental magnesium into each serving of Wild Mag Complex. One dose a day is all you need. Learn more and grab a bottle today at WildFoods.co. Use code GENIUS for 10% off your order. In this episode, we talk about: What happens when glaciers melt. Where glaciers and ice sheets tend to form, and why they melt. What “sea ice” is, and where it forms. How computer models are used in Dr. Robel's research. Want to learn more about Dr. Robel and his research? Click here now! Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
On this episode Drew is joined by our man Bones from Feel Free Kayaks. The guys talk about Bones birthday trip to Iceland where he kayaked and hiked Glaciers and Icelandic hospitality. Bones also drops some juice about the new kayak being dropped by Feel Free. Hope you guys enjoy. Now sit back, relax and enjoy the paddle.Check out our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Paddlersplaybook/Join The Redfish Network https://www.facebook.com/groups/2768636633222174Support the show through Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/PaddlersPlaybook2023 Brostaff Fishing Jersey : https://schoolspiritshopusa.com/shop-here-1/ols/products/the-paddlers-playbook-jersey
John Franklin and Louise Cook were a wealthy couple in California, living off the fortune they earned during the gold rush. Their daughter Louise Arner Boyd was born in San Rafael on September 16, 1887. Louise was offered every advantage imagined by a late young woman in the late 19th century. But instead of living extravagantly with material things, as a socialite, Louise chose experience over material things and used her inheritance to explore the Arctic, in the name of science. “Far north, hidden behind grim barriers of pack ice, are lands that hold one spell-bound.” Today we will talk about Louise Arner Boyd. She was the world's leading female Arctic explorer, geographer and arctic photographer. Louise organized, financed and led seven maritime expeditions without a formal education, limited outdoor expertise and no family members alive to advise her. Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Stories that contain adult content, including violence which may be disturbing to some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is advised. I am Andrea Anderson and this is Queens of the Mines, Season Three. In San Rafael, the Boyd's put effort into raising Louise to be a socialite, first hiring a governess tutor and then put her in the private school Miss Stewart's to learn the social graces. Louise's father had struck it rich, her mother, an aristocrat. Her mom encouraged her to join in her philanthropist activities and community work while she looked for a husband. But she was bored. Her mind was on other things. She dreamed of, and read about geography, the Arctic in particular. She did not want to sip tea in the parlor of the family's genteel mansion on Mission Avenue. She would rather spend time with her brothers. They rode horses, hiked, hunted and taught her to be a fine equestrian and skilled marksman on the 6 acre estate at Maple Lawn. In 1901, tragedy struck the Boyd family. In that year, both of her brothers died unexpectedly. One boy had complications of rheumatic fever, the other passed while away at boarding school in a riding accident. The Boyd's were devastated. After a while, Louise's father, in an attempt to give her direction and distraction, brought her on to work in the family's investment company. She worked with her parents for twenty years. Until 1919, when her mother died, her father followed a year later. 32 years old, unmarried and without children, she lost her entire family and inherited their Maple Lawn estate and a vast fortune. Fascinated with polar exploration, Boyd went to San Francisco at 19 to see Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen land in the city, after completing the first sea voyage through the Northwest Passage. She decided to travel. She spent the next few years visiting Europe. In 1924, Louise was gliding through icy waters on a Norwegian cruise ship. This is when Louise saw the polar ice pack for the first time, and madly curious, her life was forever changed. No woman before had financed and led an expedition to the polar seas. Oh well, she made a plan to travel north, and two years later, Louise chartered the Norwegian sealer Hobby and crew, and brought some friends, ready for adventure. The departed from Norway, taking stops at Northbrook Island, for photography and botanical collecting, to Franz Josef Land, for a hunt, and others for Arctic exploration. Louise fell in love with the remote land of ice. She killed many polar bears, which at the time, was highly respected. She planned another trip two years later. In Norway, far north in the city of Tromsø, Boyd and her crew were getting the Hobby ready to set sail on their second expedition. Then, news broke that Boyd's childhood hero, Roald Amundsen the iconic explorer, and his French crew had vanished while on a flight to rescue another explorer. A rescue mission was underway, and six European countries got to work organizing ships and airplanes. Wasting no time, Boyd offered the ship, crew and provisions she had on standby to the rescue efforts. She would fund the expedition herself, with one exception, she got to come along. It was a dangerous undertaking, staffed with high-ranking generals, aviators and explorers. The Norwegian government agreed, although no allowances were made for a woman. Good thing too, Louise ended up playing an integral role in the Amundsen rescue expedition. She had no experience, and the men were skeptical, but she took on her responsibilities just as they did. The 10-week rescue mission in the Greenland Sea into the pack ice north, traveling about 10,000 miles along the coast line was unsuccessful. Amundsen was never found. At the end of the summer, the Norwegian and French governments awarded Boyd the Chevalier Cross of the Order of Saint Olav and the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor for her courage and stamina. Following her return to California, Louise's life purpose was solidified. She would be an Arctic explorer. She would commit not just to polar exploration but to polar science, and use her considerable inheritance to pursue her childhood dreams. She would live two lives. At home in the States, she would play hostess, adored by California high society and on the high seas, she would be tough, brave and heroic. Hiring a botanist and a staff of promising young scientists, she planned an expedition in 1931 visiting all the fjords and sounds in the King Oscar-Franz Josef region. The trips were originally planned for photographic reconnaissance but they ended up also serving as a topographical survey and saw a variety of investigations and discoveries. The inner end of Ice Fjord was reached by ship for the first time. The De Geer Glacier, entering the head of this fjord from the north, was discovered and the area between this glacier and Jaette Glacier was subsequently officially named Louise Boyd Land. A previously unsuspected connecting valley between the heads of Kjerulf and Dickson fjords was discovered. Boyd supplied the material for a detailed topographic map of the connection, which was subsequently constructed by the American Geographical Society, from over 200 of her photographs from 50 selected stations. But several thousand photographs were taken. She was also a remarkably fast learner who sought out experts in her fields of interest—including photographer Ansel Adams and California Academy of Sciences botanist Alice Eastwood—to teach her what she needed to know. Two years later, under the auspices of the American Geographical Society, Louise led the first arctic expedition to perform extensive echo sounding with self-recording gear. She equipped the ship with an echo-sounder, sonic equipment that helped them measure the depths of the ocean and the ice. It was the first American expedition to engage in ground photogrammetry. The primary objective of this expedition was the study of glacial marginal features; to supplement the investigations of the physiographer and geologist, as well as to try out new methods of field mapping. The staff included topographers, a physiographer, a geologist and a botanist from the University of Chicago, American Geographical Society, Cambridge, England and Harvard. They sailed from Ålesund, Norway, June 28, spending a few days at Jan Mayen Island on the way out and covering the East Greenland fjord region from King Oscar Fjord to Hold With Hope and returning September 16th. Tide gauge recordings were taken at Jan Mayen Island and at stations in the Greenland fjords and echo-sounding profiles were made of a number of the fjords, and fairly continuous lines of sounding were made on the runs between Norway and Greenland. The Louise A. Boyd Arctic Expeditions of 1937 and 1938 were planned as a unit under the auspices of the American Geographical Society. In 1937, she made another expedition of 8,600 nautical miles, leaving Alesund June 4 and returning September 27. The work was a continuation of the glacial marginal studies of the 1933 expedition, and a botanist was added to the staff with the special objective of examining plant communities associated with recessional features. The 1938 3 month expedition went a few weeks around the South Glacier, Jan Mayen Island and Walrus Bay doing echo-sounding and current measurement work, filling in or improving the blank spaces on their existing charts. They also performed detailed glaciological studies at the Narwhal Glacier area, Agassiz Valley and Tyroler Valley. Even more areas were visited for glaciological and geological examinations. This expedition carried a portable echo-sounder for use in a motor dory in waters too shallow or too ice-filled for ship navigation. In some areas, they found ice two miles thick. Glaciers made navigation dangerous, and after identifying an undersea mountain range, it was decided it should be named in her honor, the Louise A. Boyd Bank. It was, at the time, the farthest north landing ever made from a ship on the east coast of Greenland. They were delayed two weeks due to difficulty getting through the coastal ice barrier. The heavy polar ice had stopped the ship. They turned south to the Franz Josef-King Oscar fjord region. That year, she was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1938. She was the second woman to earn the award. Then, in 1939 both the University of California and Mills College granted her an LL.D. in the United States of America, the LL.D. was only awarded as an honorary degree. It is the equivalent of a Ph.D. Louise paused her traveling at the outbreak of World War II, and began to travel again after she was asked to study the effect of polar magnetic fields on radio communication for the U.S. government in 1941. In 1941 Miss Boyd chartered Captain Robert A. Bartlett's schooner Effie M. Morrissey and spent the period from May to November as a temporary member of the staff of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in charge of a program of radio and ionosphere research and magnetic observation for the Bureau that involved work on both sides of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay as far north as Ellesmore Island and in Hudson Strait. Her mission undertook hazardous journeys to dangerous places. It was a perilous time. Only eight weeks before, a British cargo vessel had been torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Cape Farewell just to the south. Effie M. Morrissey navigated its way through a narrow fjord and anchored off the town of Julianehaab. The American ship appeared vulnerable and run-down next to the impressive U.S. Coast Guard vessels Bowdoin and Comanche. As newly minted members of the Greenland Patrol of the Atlantic Fleet, the Bowdoin and the Comanche were responsible for preventing German forces from establishing a base on Greenland and for providing vital support for the Allies. As the Morrissey's passengers disembarked, town residents gathered onshore. Commander Donald Macmillan of the Bowdoin hurried forward to greet the person in charge. Defying all expectations, the leader was no grizzled Navy man. Instead, a stately, well-coiffed California woman of a certain age clambered out of the rowboat and strode toward him. Everyone wondered what she was doing in the company of high-ranking officers engaged in war matters. Well the answer was a secret. Boyd, operating under the guise of her work as an explorer, was conducting a covert mission for the American government, searching for possible military landing sites and investigating the improvement of radio communications in this region. Even the captain and crew of her own ship were unaware of the expedition's true goals. Miss Boyd not only turned over to the War Department her photographic library and her collection of hundreds of maps and miscellaneous publications dealing with the northern countries of Europe as well as the Arctic, but served in Washington from March 1942 to July 1943 as special consultant to the Military Intelligence Division. The National Bureau of Standards commended Boyd for resolving critical radio transmission problems they had grappled with in the Arctic for decades, and a certificate of appreciation from the Department of the Army extolled her “exemplary service as being highly beneficial to the cause of victory in 1949.” But Louise was not universally respected by her expedition participants. Boyd battled shyness and did struggle at times to assert herself. At first, most academics would be pleased with her credentials and her generous offer to join the team, but many ridiculed her behind her back and undermined her position as leader during the expeditions. Whatever. When Louise was 68, she took her last trip to the Arctic. This time, she chartered an airplane and became the first woman to fly over the North Pole. Over her lifetime, Boyd had no interest in being the “first” or conquering territories, she focused on contributing to science. She used her inherited fortune to organize, finance, and conduct seven Arctic expeditions in vessels which she had chartered and equipped. Louise was one of the first women to autograph their Explorers Globe, alongside major explorers and aviators of the 20th century. She pioneered the use of cutting-edge technology, including the first deep-water recording echo-sounder. She pioneered the use of photogrammetry, the science of taking photographs to create models or maps, in inaccessible places. She discovered a glacier in Greenland, a new underwater bank in the Norwegian Sea and many new botanical species. In all but 2 expeditions, she made large botanical collections. The staff botanist covered the other two trips. She also held the role as the official photographer and built up a full portfolio of glacial marginal features, land forms, vegetation, and sea ice, documenting ice patterns along the Greenland coast. Her extensive photographic documentation of Greenland is currently used by glaciologists to track climate change in Greenlandic glaciers. Her expeditions generated new data in the fields of geology, oceanography, botany, and glaciology. Data generated during her expeditions is still cited by contemporary scientists in the fields of geology, geomorphology, oceanography and botany. As a U.S. military consultant, she was an invaluable asset to the Allied war effort. Exploration of the Arctic seascape—with its vast expanses of bobbing ice, the rhythmic sway of the wooden ship as it traversed the surging waves, the soothing solitude of the north—resonated deeply with Boyd and defined who she was and what she did. She spent her remaining years in the San Francisco area writing about her experiences, she had spent most of the family fortune for her explorations and had to sell the family home in San Rafael, California. Today the gatehouse at the Boyd Estate is the present day home of the Marin History Museum and has a permanent exhibit of Louise Boyd's photographs and memorabilia. Louise A Boyd died on September 14, 1972, two days before her 85th birthday. Boyd requested that her ashes be scattered in the Arctic Ocean. It all leads me to wonder, Where do you want your bones to spend eternity? —--------------------- Are you enjoying the podcast? Make sure to subscribe, rate, review and find us on facebook and instagram. You can join the biggest fans behind the scenes at patreon.com/queensofthemines, or give a one time tip via venmo to, @queensofthemines
Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes that can cause dangerous flash floods. Millions of people downstream are threatened. In today's episode, NPR Climate Desk reporter Rebecca Hersher and producer Ryan Kellman take Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong to a community high in the mountains of Nepal where residents are on the front lines of this new climate threat, and explains how scientists are looking for solutions that can save lives around the world.Check out the full series about how melting ice affects us all: npr.org/icemelt. Reach the show by emailing shortwave@npr.org.
Finding water on Mars could be a boon for human explorers there, as it provides drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel. Dr. Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute and SETI, with his colleagues, has spotted the remains of what appears to be an ancient glacier—which may still contain ice–close to the Martian equator, where it would be most accessible to future astronauts. Image credit: NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite. Lee et al. 2023 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Pascal Lee Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: athleticgreens.com/twis
Finding water on Mars could be a boon for human explorers there, as it provides drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel. Dr. Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute and SETI, with his colleagues, has spotted the remains of what appears to be an ancient glacier—which may still contain ice–close to the Martian equator, where it would be most accessible to future astronauts. Image credit: NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite. Lee et al. 2023 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Pascal Lee Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: athleticgreens.com/twis
Finding water on Mars could be a boon for human explorers there, as it provides drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel. Dr. Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute and SETI, with his colleagues, has spotted the remains of what appears to be an ancient glacier—which may still contain ice–close to the Martian equator, where it would be most accessible to future astronauts. Image credit: NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite. Lee et al. 2023 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Pascal Lee Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: athleticgreens.com/twis
Hey guys, next Saturday, April 22, is Earth Day. So to appreciate our planet Earth, I thought I should focus on Climate Change for this upcoming eps.Climate change is defined as long-term changes in weather patterns and has become an alarming issue affecting everyone. Unfortunately, our activities are the leading cause of climate change.In recent years, more and more people from all walks of life have been raising awareness about climate change. And today's guest, multi-award-winning composer, Brian Field , is also stepping up by starting a musical movement, "Passions for our Tortured Planet," to bring further awareness to this danger that will impact all citizens of this earth.Brian is also the one who has composed "Three Passions for our Tortured Planet" for solo piano, focusing on three climate change areas: Fire
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau explore the world of Ice caves and Auroras with adventure photographer Tyler Bryan of Roam Wild Shout out to Gideon with Double Shovel Kodiak, Meat Party Thank you's, meat party stand outs, the milepost shot, Ice caves, best aurora borealis shows of our lives, shots from the helicopter, Kenai Lake shot, avalanches where you don't expect them, packing AVY gear for spring hunts, aurora chasing on Facebook, sign up to sponsor, marine core duty in the White House, President duty and being chosen, Whitehouse secrets, coming to Alaska with President Obama, coming back to Alaska to play, getting to Kenai, Endurance, Aurora Australis, keeping spots secret, don't be dissing Coleman, elk hunting in Utah, Logistics and Gear, moose camp luxuries, Jackery, portable chargers, paddle boarding with BOTE, Valdez Board man, you have to be there for the career photo, Aaron Sweeney lazy Susan and sign work, Jacks Trivia , How many named Glaciers in Alaska, unnamed, favorite glacier, Inuit northern lights are the life cycle of the spirits, Mr Steel, gear talk, Hunting, bear encounter on Raspberry island Visit our website - www.alaskawildproject.com Support on Patreon - www.patreon.com/alaskawildproject Follow on Instagram - www.instagram.com/alaskawildproject Watch on YouTube - www.youtube.com/@alaskawildproject
Episode 47 We dare you to say ‘Ice Aged Ice Sheets' five times fast. But first, in this episode, the GotR Gang dive into all things Glaciers, brrrr. Glaciers and Glaciation, generally speaking, covers the formation, features, effects, and causes of glaciation events on Earth. Ice sheets and alpine glaciers are described, including their movement and erosional features and landforms. Glacial deposits will be examined, including a discussion of the features created by till and stratified drift. Other effects are worthy of discussion, including crustal subsidence and rebound, sea level changes, alterations to streams and stream valleys, and the formation of proglacial and pluvial lakes. However, there is not enough time in one episode to bring you all the fun facts about glaciers. Remember, if you fall down a crevasse, the good news is you will only fall 50 meters. The bad news is that you will fall 50 meters. Between the bars of our main discussion, we present to you another Mineral Minute, then close things out with special guest Joe Guzman of Space Poets to promote his Psychedelic Panther Music Fest during this week's That Freaking Rocks! Until next time remember to… Be Cool, Stay Tuned, & Keep It On The Rocks --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geology-on-the-rocks/support
Some of most dramatic evidence that the Earth's climate is warming is the retreat and even disappearance of mountain glaciers around the world. 2022 was the 35th year in a row that glaciers tracked by the World Glacier Monitoring Service lost rather than gained ice. Glaciers gain mass through snowfall and lose mass through melting […]
Ice can trap pollutants and accelerate their breakdown, with troubling environmental consequences.
In this bonus episode, join host Rowan Hooper as he ventures to Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the far north, just 1000 km from the North Pole. The Arctic is warming far faster than any other region on the planet, making Svalbard an incredible natural laboratory to study climate change, and particularly, melting glaciers. Svalbard is also home to a large population of the world's largest land carnivore, the polar bear. Rowan speaks with Jon Aars of the Norwegian Polar Institute about the fate of this spectacular predator. To read about subjects like this and much more, you can subscribe to New Scientist magazine at newscientist.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The turquoise waters of Lake Palcacocha are a beautiful sight to behold. On its northeastern edge, a huge glacier looms above the water, its white cliffs sparkling under the sun.The lake is located 15,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains, near the Peruvian city of Huaraz. As temperatures become warmer and ice sheets melt in the area, the lake has become increasingly dangerous due to its overflow potential. Palcacocha is one of dozens of lakes around the world that now pose a threat to towns and villages in mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas.“If a large chunk of ice breaks off from the glacier, and falls into the lake, it will empty the lake out and generate floods and avalanches downstream,” said Jesus Gomez, an expert on glaciers at Peru's Institute for the Study of Mountainous Ecosystems.“It's hard to tell when something like that could happen, so we have to constantly monitor the area.” The city of Huaraz is in a valley below Lake Palcacocha. Some of its neighborhoods have been built along a river that comes from the lake. Credit: Manuel Rueda/The World The avalanche could easily reach Huaraz, a city of 100,000 people in a valley below, where several neighborhoods have been built along a river that comes from Lake Palcacocha.“We are worried about what could happen,” said Teo Pineda, a driver who lives near the river in a three-story house. “This melting of the glaciers is already making the levels of the river go up.” Teo Pineda lives in a house near the Qilcay River, which originates in Lake Palcacocha. He is one of 15 million people in the world who are exposed to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods. Credit: Manuel Rueda/The World According to a study published in February by the Nature Communications journal, 15 million people around the world are currently exposed to floods originating in high-altitude glacial lakes. Scientists call these events glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOFs.Most people currently exposed to GLOFs live along mountain ranges in China, India, Pakistan and Peru, where glaciers have been melting over the past century. The lakes that then form below them have also become bigger.Another study published in Nature Communications in 2020 found that the total surface area of glacial lakes around the world increased by 51% between 1990 and 2018 — with hundreds of new lakes also being formed.In Peru, Lake Palcacocha's surface area has grown by 30 times since the 1970s as the glacier above it slowly melts. The lake already burst in 1941, when heavy rains eroded the land around Palcacocha.Around 10 million cubic meters of water — the equivalent of 4,000 Olympic swimming pools — spilled out of the lake and rushed towards Huaraz, creating a flood that destroyed almost every building in its path, killing 1,800 people.“It's probably the largest volume of water ever to impact a major urban settlement in the world,” said Steven Wagner, an archeologist who lives in Huaraz, and wrote a book about the flooding. “That large volume of water tumbled boulders that were two stories high, they rolled along [the mountain] and made an infernal sound.”Preventing future disastersTo stop Lake Palcacocha from bursting again, officials in Huaraz built a dike on its southwest edge, where water flows out of the lake.They also set up big, plastic tubes that siphon water out of the lake so its levels don't rise. Plastic tubes siphon water out of Lake Palcacocha so that its levels don't rise too drastically. Credit: Manuel Rueda/The World Marlene Rosario oversees these projects financed by the regional government. But she said many more adaptations need to be carried out around the lake.“The problem with just siphoning water out of the lake is that we are not preserving the water for future use,” she said.Huaraz has plenty of water now. But if the glacier continues to retreat, that water could become polluted, because it will come into contact with toxic minerals.“Eventually, we will need to build reservoirs and treatment plants below the lake,” Rosario said.Holding the polluters accountableSome people in Huarez say that those who are responsible for climate change should help pay for these adaptations.Lake Palcacocha has long served as a water source for the city and surrounding villages. People hope these adjustments will preserve the lake and no longer threaten the city's survival. Plastic tubes siphon water out of Lake Palcacocha in Peru to keep its levels in check. Credit: Manuel Rueda/The World In 2017, mountaineering guide Saul Lliuya teamed up with German Watch, an environmental group, to sue RWE, a German energy company.RWE made electricity for decades in Europe by burning massive amounts of coal. The company is now phasing out its coal-fueled power plants, but a 2013 climate study claims that it is responsible for half of a percent of global emissions since the 19th century.“I have seen firsthand how the glaciers are melting because of climate change,” Lliuya said at his home in Huaraz.“And we need to [hold] companies that are responsible for that accountable.” As glaciers melt in different parts of the world, they are more likely to cause floods in mountainous areas. Credit: Manuel Rueda/The World Lliuya's lawsuit says RWE should pay for 0.5% of the costs of flood prevention programs in Huaraz, or what amounts to around $20,000 dollars. The case is currently being reviewed by a German court.“If we put some pressure on those who emit greenhouse gasses, perhaps they will have to change their practices,” he added.“We are not going to recover all the damage that's been done, but at least we can stop this kind of pollution in the future.”Related: Protests across Peru are keeping tourists away from the country's top travel destinations
Composer/singer/songwriter Mary Edwards returns for her second visit to the show and this time, you better bundle up because she's taking us on a trip to the arctic to listen to glaciers, wind, water and more. I mean, sure, this is a podcast so of course we should be listening but we're gonna listen to a glacier? Sorta, sorta not, what we're gonna do is hear Mary's good travels up to the northern most part of our world to record and then compose one of her original soundscapes that's all focused on nature and planet Earth. This is a good adventure you didn't even know was possible and Mary is the perfect tour guide. Best part is you don't have to bring a coat to enjoy her good story.
Glaciers are massive bodies of slowly moving ice. Glaciers form on land, and represent the snows of centuries compressed over time. They move slowly downward under the influence of their own weight and gravity. Most of the glaciers on the planet are found in the polar regions, including Antarctica, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland. Glaciers […]
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Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1890 Andes by Church #NewWorldReport: Climate change and the Andean glaciers of Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/glacial-lake-floods-threaten-communities-asia-south-america-2023-02-07/
Vieux de plusieurs dizaines de milliers d'années, les glaciers, de fascinants monuments naturels, sont menacés. Les Alpes françaises en comptent plus de 4 000, dont 80 % à 90 % aura disparu en 2100 sous l'effet du réchauffement climatique. Parmi les glaciers les plus emblématiques, la Mer de glace souffre et recule chaque année un peu plus, sous l'œil des touristes. Le glacier des Bossons laisse, lui, apparaître des débris d'avion qu'on croyait à jamais disparus. Des images saisissantes.
Coming at you with a Raekwon (@raekwon) and Ghostface Killah (@realghostfacekillah) powered version of the podcast this time. We set it off with and interview we did with Ivy Thomas (@ivythomas_) while she was visiting us in California and talk about her start in surfing and women in surfing. Next we have a talk about style with our homie Erin Ashley (@wormtown). We wrap this joint up in a big purple tape bow with some short takes from @stephaniegilmore, @lograp, and @hydrophilesurfcraft . So make sure to sit down and get in the mood for 2 hours of Cuban link inspired flava. Make sure to check us out at https://www.instagram.com/bodegaboardercrew/ Our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4lgfJ1S0otI2xIvlyTW1Xg Collection available here http://www.bodegaboardercrewstore.com No need to bust a craze on some waves...there's always more during the next swell. TRACKS PLAYED THIS EPISODE 1. Striving for Perfection - Raekwon 2. Glaciers of Ice - Raekwon 3. Criminology (feat. Ghostface Killah) - Raekwon 4. Ice Water (feat. Ghostface Killah & Cappadonna) - Raekwon 5. House of Flying Daggers (feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah & Method Man) - Raekwon 6. Heaven & Hell - El Michaels Affair 7. Rock 'N' Roll (feat. Jim Jones, Ghostface Killah & Kobe James) - Raekwon 8. Maxine (feat. Ghostface Killah) - Raekwon 9. Can It Be All So Simple (Remix) [feat. Ghostface Killah] - Raekwon 10. R.A.G.U. - Ghostface Killah 11. Revenge Is Sweet (Instrumental) - Ghostface Killah 12. Flowers (Featuring Raekwon, Method Man & Superb) - Ghostface Killah 13. Troublemakers - Ghostface Killah 14. Daytona 500 - Ghostface Killah 15. Loyalty (Instrumental) - Ghostface Killah 16. Apollo Kids (feat. Raekwon) - Ghostface Killah 17. Rec-Room Therapy (feat. Raekwon & U-God) - Ghostface Killah SHORT TAKES Steph Gilmore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpFGy9gRZfg&t=260s Searching from Log Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1TYc3w2xw Hydrophile Fin Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSQzgNm23M Merch available here http://www.bodegaboardercrewstore.com and follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bodegaboardercrew/ ACTION ITEMS FOR TYRE NICHOLS: https:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/blm2023 https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyre-nichols? https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/10/cover-police-brutality
Anita Sanchez's award-winning books sing the praises of unloved plants and animals, and of the unusual, often ignored wild places of the world: dandelions, poison ivy, spiders, mud puddles, and glaciers. Years of field work and teaching outdoor classes have given her firsthand experience introducing students to the wonders of nature. Her latest work, MELTDOWN:Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers & Learn What You Can Do to Save Them is available now
Yes this winter ain't very wintery, yet. Melted ambient, jazz and out there sounds.
with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
#120 In this episode we welcome 2023 with an acclaimed game: Endless Winter PaleoAmericans by Fantasia games with the painting caverns expansion!Dereck starts the 3 episode marathon where we will witness at the end of the third episode which game is the best: Endless Winter w/expansion vs Arnak w/expansion vs Dune Imperium w/expansion.We hope you enjoy and share!!The music that you listen to at the end of this episode is by Russian Cowboys. You can find their new album on Spotify.Solo BG Podcast is part of the dice tower network! Check other amazing podcasts at www.thedicetower.com
durée : 00:53:01 - La Terre au carré - par : Mathieu Vidard - Pour la première émission des 4 saisons de la Terre au Carré, La Terre au Carré est au chevet des glaciers alpins qui, dans un contexte de réchauffement climatique, fondent. Fanny Brun, Jean-Franck Charlet et Luc Moreau ont en commun d'avoir un amour pour les Alpes, le Mont Blanc et les glaciers.
durée : 00:53:01 - La Terre au carré - par : Mathieu Vidard - Pour la première émission des 4 saisons de la Terre au Carré, La Terre au Carré est au chevet des glaciers alpins qui, dans un contexte de réchauffement climatique, fondent. Fanny Brun, Jean-Franck Charlet et Luc Moreau ont en commun d'avoir un amour pour les Alpes, le Mont Blanc et les glaciers.
Anita Sanchez's books are mostly targeted toward young readers, anything from preschool to adult, and they help all readers fall in love with aspects of our world and nature that most ignore, whether talking about puddles, poison ivy, gardens, or visiting the night.
There's always a moment of intense isolation when Jessica Mejía gets dropped off on the Greenland ice sheet for a multi-week research stint. "You know you're very much alone," said Jessica, a postdoctoral researcher in glaciology at the University of Buffalo. Glaciers such as those that cover Greenland are melting due to climate change, causing sea levels to rise. That we know. But these glaciers are also moving. What we don't know is just how these two processes – melting and movement – interact and ultimately impact how quickly sea levels will rise. Jessica joins Short Wave's Aaron Scott to explain what it's like to live on a glacier for a month, and what her research could mean for coastal communities all over the world.
With planet-warming emissions on the rise, scientists worry about melting glaciers and the onslaught of repercussions. A new study published in the Journal of Science looks at the future of hundreds of thousands of glaciers, and what we can expect. David Rounce of Carnegie Mellon University joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the study. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
With planet-warming emissions on the rise, scientists worry about melting glaciers and the onslaught of repercussions. A new study published in the Journal of Science looks at the future of hundreds of thousands of glaciers, and what we can expect. David Rounce of Carnegie Mellon University joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the study. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders
Is this all a continuation of Trump's January 6th coup attempt and his desire to convert America from a democracy into a despotic strongman-ruleg nation aligned with Russia?Veteran War Correspondent, Phil Ittner, on the New Years Eve attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Is Using PGA Suit to Get Data on 9/11 Families. World Could Lose Half of Glaciers This Century Even If Warming Is Kept to 1.5°See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
AP correspondent Ed Donahue on Shrinking Glaciers
Lisa is joined by Anita Sanchez, an author with award-winning books that sing the praises of unloved plants and animals: dandelions, poison ivy, bats, tarantulas. She loves to explore the under-appreciated wild places of the world, from glaciers to mud puddles.Years of field work and teaching outdoor classes have given her firsthand experience in introducing students to the terrors and joys of nature. Many of her books come from real experiences on real nature trails.Today she joins Lisa to talk about her latest book, Meltdown: Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them Book description: Meet the glaciers—before they disappear. Meltdown: Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them is a kids' guide to the glorious but endangered world of glaciers. Glaciers may not be as well-known as rain forests or coral reefs, but they are just as vital to the health of the planet, and just as threatened by climate change. Packed with information, grounded in the latest science, with lively writing and illustrations throughout (including graphs, charts, infographics, photographs, and full-page art), Meltdown gives readers an eye-opening overview of glaciers and how important they are: There are over 100,000 glaciers covering 10% of earth's landmass, that hold almost three-quarters of the planet's fresh water, and act as protective shields to cool the atmosphere and combat climate change. We learn how glaciers were formed (some over two million years ago), how they move and carve the planet's landscape, and how scientists study them (the bluer the ice, the older it is). We learn the secrets of earth's climate history hidden deep in a glacier's core—and discover how climate change is causing glaciers to melt at unprecedented rates, putting the health of the planet in jeopardy. But we are not left without hope. The final chapter offers positive steps readers can take to become climate activists, reduce their carbon footprint, and save the glaciers.
durée : 00:29:07 - Carbone 14, le magazine de l'archéologie - par : Vincent Charpentier - Sous l'effet du réchauffement climatique, les glaciers alpins libèrent des vestiges piégés depuis des siècles voire des millénaires. Vincent Charpentier s'entretient avec Ralph Lugon et Pierre-Yves Nicod, deux spécialistes suisses. - invités : Pierre-Yves Nicod Archéologue et conservateur du Département Préhistoire et Antiquité au Musée d'Histoire du Valais (Sion, Suisse); Ralph Lugon Professeur associé à l'Université de Fribourg au Département de géosciences/géographie.
Once a Glacier is a 360 video that visualizes the before and after a glacier melts over the course of a single human life time. Director Jiabao then expanded this piece as a part of a live motion capture dance performance that showed at The ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage at IDFA 2022. I interviewed her at IDFA to talk about the evolution of this project, working with indigenous poet Joan Naviyuk Kane, recording sounds of a melting glacier, and how she wanted to juxtapose geological time with the time of a human lifespan to bring more ecological awareness to the changing world around us.
Jason Hummel: Cascade Crusader In this episode, photographer and Backcountry contributor Jason Hummel shares his passion for exploring far-flung places in his home range and beyond. Jason grew up backcountry skiing on Washington's glaciers and in the surrounding wild country, including his first multi day winter traverse of Mt. Rainier at just 10 years old. Fast forward a few decades, and a lifetime of exploring Washington's wildest winter places has inspired Jason to become a student and avid researcher of Washington's glacial history, while documenting his own journeys along the way. This episode is brought to you in part by Taos Ski Valley. Backcountry Magazine Website | Instagram | Facebook Get the print mag and more…. www.backcountrymagazine.com Host: Adam Howard Guest: Jason Hummel Producer + Engineer: Mike Horn
Today we're chatting about one of my favorite countries for active travelers, Iceland! While luxury in other countries may mean five star hotels and spas, true luxury in this corner of the world looks more like private guides inviting you into their homes, having parts of the other-worldly landscape all to yourself, horseback riding to a private picnic near a waterfall, or helicoptering up to hike on a glacier. Our guest today is Erling Aspelund, Owner of Iceland Encounter. After many years working in the corporate world in the US, Erling and his family traveled home to pursue their passion for travel and design a better Icelandic travel experience. Today Iceland Encounter is probably the top luxury travel company in Iceland. Erling and I discuss secret hikes, the fabulous landscapes and wow moments he's created for travelers. We also touch on how the Icelandic culture lends itself to working together, and how that will help the country recover quickly post-Covid. Thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Covac Global. Learn more at www.luxtravelinsider.com Connect with me on Social: Instagram LinkedIn
A night under the stars in the Himalayas. A lion hunt from a safari van in Africa. A dune climb in Morocco. Aayas Joshi '26 (the first Morehead-Cain Scholar from Nepal), Olu Kopano '26, and scholar host Elias Guedira '26 share about their global experiences on the Morehead-Cain International Gap Year. At the end of the episode, we also hear from current gap year scholars Abbey Beebe '27 about swimming in bioluminescent waters in the Caribbean Sea and Chandler Beals '27 from an airport in Las Vegas between trips.Morehead-Cain recipients are invited to consider taking a funded gap year between graduating high school and coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Listen to the first gap year episode from last year: Gap year dispatch with Emile Charles '24 (and ft. Taylor Shinal '25, Mark Finamore '25, Asher Wexler '25, and Noah Gottlieb '25). Emile interned at a children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa; visited his father's Caribbean home in St. George's, Grenada; worked on a global public health collaboration between the Carolina and the Malawi Ministry of Health; and organized Black Lives Matter protests in Chapel Hill.
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 101 James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, gets asked all the time about what really got him started in his campaign against Woke Marxism. Invariably, the conversation includes a discussion of the Grievance Studies Affair, but what triggered that? Before the Grievance Studies Affair (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ ), there was "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" (https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf/ ), and before the Conceptual Penis, there was a real academic paper called "Glaciers, Gender, and Science: A Feminist Glaciology Framework for Global Environmental Change Research" (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368/ ) by four researchers from the University of Oregon, writing on a significant National Science Foundation grant. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James revisits this paper and shares with you exactly what it says, now understood in great clarity. Join him to hear how he was "radicalized" to start fighting the Woke in a serious manner, in their own words. Pre-order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay
Stephanie Case is a well-known figure in trail/ultra running, not just for her success in crazy, tough races (Tor de Glaciers, Hardrock, The Barkley Marathons), but for her outspokenness about women's rights. Stephanie spearheads tough conversations concerning inclusivity for women in our sport- pregnancy deferrals, quotas for women in races/lotteries, and more. If she couldn't be any more admirable, Steph also works in conflict zones as a Human Rights Advocate.Free to Run: https://freetorun.org/IG: https://www.instagram.com/theultrarunnergirl/?hl=enStephanie Case Trail Runner Article: https://www.trailrunnermag.com/people/stephanie-cases-secret-weapon/https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/why-cant-pregnant-women-defer-race-entries/https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/western-states-transgender-athletes-policy/Information on coaching-https://trainright.com/Koop's Social MediaTwitter/Instagram- @jasonkoopBuy Koop's new book onAmazon-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYVR8P6Audible-https://www.audible.com/pd/Training-Essentials-for-Ultrarunning-Second-Edition-Audiobook/B09P38S2PR?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-290525&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_290525_rh_us
Continuing our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole, we discuss the evidence that advances and retreats of the massive Pleistocene ice sheets in North America and Europe were apparently in opposition, such that whenever there was an advance in Europe, for example, there was a retreat of ice in North America, and vice versa. Hapgood points to this as evidence that these advances and retreats were not caused by global cooling or warming, but perhaps they may have been caused by lithosphere displacement. Near the end of the episode we start in on "orogenesis" or the process of mountain building, and the mysteries of how the world's enormous mountain chains came to be. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1 Executive Producers: Anne who Knits Peter Beebee Associate Executive Producers: Laura Coutu Bradley Justice Douglas Obie Below are some excellent images of the fossil human footprints at White Sands, evidence that humans were in North America ~20ka, as provided by listener Greenman in an email we read in the last segment of the show. If you can't see the images, check our website.
The highly risky COVID vaccines have been "unanimously" passed by the CDC to be added to the early childhood vaccine schedule even though they aren't proven to be better for kids than getting the Wuhan flu. But even if your kids don't die of COVID, they'll definitely die from the dangerous glaciers. It's one hysterical event after another with the Dems.
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