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What does this sudden flood of icebergs mean? Was the ice shelf, as most scientists think, responding to its own internal rhythms of expansion and retreat? Or was it reacting, through some connection in the ocean perhaps, to the general warming that has taken place almost everywhere else...
...streams are transporting ice--at the relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...
...centerpiece of Gondwanaland, and its winds, like those of then contiguous Australia and South America, were warmed by currents flowing down from the equator. But around 25 million years ago, after the other continents had pulled away, a new current was created--one that circled endlessly round the Southern Ocean, sealing Antarctica off from tropical influence...
...runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
...heritage field stand ready to voice their objections. Besides, Borobudur is different. It exerts a powerful influence all its own. The stupa is the closest thing this fractious archipelago nation has to a unifying emblem. I have yet to visit an island in Indonesia, from the Indian Ocean to the fringes of Oceania, that doesn't have a Borobudur Restaurant. If there is any symbol in this divided land that could bring people together, it is this ancient monument to cosmic harmony...