Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
Jan 7 2008 6:23PM (CT)
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
Jan 7 2008 6:23PM (CT)
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
Jan 7 2008 6:23PM (CT)
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
Jan 7 2008 6:23PM (CT)
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Australians battle fires and floods
Jan 7 2008 2:42AM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australians battled both fires and some of the worst flooding in decades Monday that stranded residents in several communities after days of intense summer heat and storms.
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