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Body of 9-year-old recovered from 200-foot crevasse in Alaska
Officials have recovered the body of a 9-year-old boy who died over the weekend after crashing his snowmobile through a glacier in Alaska. Shjon Brown’s body was recovered around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters...Tags: Landforms, U.S. Army
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Agency Plans Workshops on Harbor Seal Protections
Channel 2 NewsThe National Marine Fisheries Service is planning workshops in Juneau and Yakutat on April 22 and 23 to take comment on whether cruise ships or other vessels in glacial fjords disturb harbor seals. Harbor seals are an important subsistence game animal...Tags: Landforms, National Marine Fisheries Service
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New images from JPL's UAVSAR, the radar that sees through trees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may be most famous for sending Curiosity to Mars and Voyager to the edge of the solar system, but some of its coolest technology is being used right here on Earth. For the last month, a manned C-20A aircraft owned by...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Volcanoes, NASA, Google Inc.
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From Our Files for March 31, 2013
100 Years Ago - 1913 The People’s Bank of Perryville has just received a large shipment of the new nickel five-cent piece from the United States Treasury. Cashier C.D. Minor came to Danville by automobile and carried the coins back to Perryville....
Tags: National Parks, Government, Washington, DC, Landforms, Politics
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Vancouver Aquarium Holds Naming Contest for Homer Sea Otter
Channel 2 NewsA Canadian aquarium in British Columbia is offering Twitter users an opportunity to help name its newest female sea otter pup, which has been rehabilitated after it was rescued on the Homer Spit last year. Work to care for the pup began after it was...Tags: Landforms, Vancouver (Canada)
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5 for the road
Hurry up and slow down. That's one way to look at a road trip. You don't hop a plane and zip off halfway around the world. You slide in behind the wheel and get a grip, you feel the planet, you experience the travel. Travel becomes part of the...Tags: Gardens and Parks, National Parks, Humphrey Bogart, Atlantic Ocean, Tourism and Leisure
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Air Taxi Slides After Glacier Landing; No Injuries
Channel 2 NewsNo injuries were reported after a Talkeetna Air Taxi plane with four people on board slid onto its nose after a glacier landing near Mount McKinley Friday, in an incident where federal agencies initially indicated the plane had gone down. Talkeetna...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Landforms
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Set sail to explore the Inside Passage on an Alaskan cruise
Its native peoples called it Alyeska, "the Great Land," and no wonder: Alaska has many eye-popping and mind-boggling attributes to richly justify that name. Consider it has 586,000 square miles (equivalent of one-fifth of the lower contiguous 48 states)....
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Travel, Cruises, Tourism and Leisure, Landforms
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10 things you might not know about ice
It's ice time in Chicago, with people scraping it off their windshields, cheering the Blackhawks as they skate on it and finding new ways to avoid having their cars slide on it. Northwest suburban Wauconda recently made news by saying it was considering...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Chicago Tribune, Newspapers, Landforms, The Wall Street Journal
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Libertyville teacher heading to NASA polar project
Mark Buesing has spent the past 18 years in a classroom teaching students about science and physics, but in a few weeks, he'll be in Greenland with NASA scientists and researchers, glacier-mapping and studying polar ice and how it affects the global...
Tags: Schools, Education, Satellite Technology, Teaching and Learning, Landforms
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'Bachelor' recap, Tierra's icy dip, and free falling with Des
The final night of our two-night special event takes us to Canada. Sean seems to be in better spirits after the fiasco in Montana and the ladies were ... being the ladies. We'll have the opportunity to join them for three dates tonight two, one-on-...
Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Landforms, Sports
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours at the top of Europe
ReutersINTERLAKEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Virgin, the Monk, and the Ogre — in German, the Jungfrau, the Moench and the Eiger — are three classic Swiss mountains that for centuries have drawn artists, thrill-seekers and tourists. For a weekend...Tags: Swiss Confederation, Petroleum Industry, Transportation, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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