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  • Coastal mountain, old-growth rainforest …. especially near a glacier-fed, bottomless lake!

    » The Sea in my Heart Strocel.com 2009

  • The first few miles of the trail are full of wailing kids and flip-flop-wearing tourists, but once you push past Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point, which offers a stunning view of Jackson Hole valley, you follow a quiet path between the shoulders of the mountains, past landslides, glacier-fed rivers, huckleberry thickets and piney forests.

    Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011

  • An estimated 500 million people in India depend on the tributaries of the glacier-fed Indus and Ganges rivers for irrigation and drinking water, according to the State of Environment Report by India's Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2009.

    India's Shrinking Glaciers 2010

  • Scientists fear a rise in sea levels and fall in glacier-fed rivers crucial to agriculture will result.

    Global efforts under way to reduce black-carbon emissions 2009

  • And this corner of the continent boasts steep, roaring glacier-fed rivers, and a growing group of companies harnessing them to generate carbon-free electricity.

    James Glave: Backstage at a Run-of-River Green-Energy Project 2009

  • Scientists fear a rise in sea levels and fall in glacier-fed rivers crucial to agriculture will result.

    Global efforts under way to reduce black-carbon emissions 2009

  • We also spent time at another glacier-fed lake called Lake Louise.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • What do people who depend on glacier-fed springs and rivers for drinking water do if there are no more glaciers?

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

  • We have spent the day surrounded by towering mountains, glacier-fed lakes, and douglas fir.

    Turquoise Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • We have spent the day surrounded by towering mountains, glacier-fed lakes, and douglas fir.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

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