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Environmental Woes of Tierra del Fuego -- Climate Change

Two hundred kilometers from the Gran Campo Nevado, Dr. Gino Casassa and Dr. Rolf Killian float through a jam of icebergs calved from the Grey Glacier in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park. The glacier, a majestic tourist attraction, has lost three kilometers of length in three years, jamming its moraine lake with ice. Though the glaciers of the Gran Campo Nevado are stable, glaciers like Grey, which spread from Patagonia's much larger Campo Hielo Sur ice field, are rapidly receding. Here higher temperatures and less rainfall influence the ice much differently.

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1. Climate Change
Two hundred kilometers from the Gran Campo Nevado, Dr. Gino Casassa and Dr. Rolf Killian float through a jam of icebergs calved from the Grey Glacier in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park. The glacier, a majestic tourist attraction, has lost three kilometers of length in three years, jamming its moraine lake with ice. Though the glaciers of the Gran Campo Nevado are stable, glaciers like Grey, which spread from Patagonia's much larger Campo Hielo Sur ice field, are rapidly receding. Here higher temperatures and less rainfall influence the ice much differently.