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BLACKSTONE BAY
HENEY GLACIER
VALDEZ GLACIER
HUGH MILLER GLACIER
VALDEZ BAY
The Trans - Alaska Pipeline ends here in Valdez, not far from the site of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Due to global warming, the town's namesake glacier has retreated beyond view.
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1938 The Valdez and Camicia are two of the many glaciers that were highly visible in this scene 70 years ago. |
2007 Most of the ice in the mountains, including Camicia Glacier, has thinned substantially. The Valdez has retreated two miles and thinned 34 stories. |
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Gradual adaptation
has been a part of
life during natural
climate fluctuations.
But climate change is
now occurring much
more rapidly, and it
may cause the
extinction of as many
as one million species
in the next 50 years.
For example, a
fungal infection driven
by global warming is
decimating frog and
toad populations. The
infection has wiped
out two-thirds of an entire genus of Central and South American frogs, including
the golden toad and the Monteverde harlequin frog.
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