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Environment

To what extent is Antarctica really melting and what impact might it have on coastlines around the world?

EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: To what extent is Antarctica really melting and what impact might it have on coastlines around the world?     — Andrea Hutchinson, Cary, NC The Antarctic continent, roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined, is composed of rock covered by glaciers some 16,000 […]

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Travel

Destination Jasper, Alberta – Home of the Canadian ‘Rocky Moutain High’

By Leslee Jaquette I have twice visited Jasper, Alberta. The first time was in November. Snow covered the village and the local ski resorts were operating on thin cover. But it was magnificent and I was hooked on Canada in the winter. A number of years later, I returned to Jasper in the summer via […]

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