| 21. | The retreat of mountain glaciers has been seen from Montana to Mount Everest to the Swiss Alps.
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| 22. | Shrinkage of mountain glaciers has been reported in various locations, including Argentina, Peru, Iceland, Norway, and New Zealand.
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| 23. | Alaska's contribution to water reaching the sea from mountain glaciers is estimated at about 30 percent . _ __
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| 24. | There are only limited studies of the greatest mountain glaciers such as those of Alaska, Patagonia or the Himalayas.
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| 25. | Yet, the melt off from Patagonia is almost a third as much as the melt off from Alaska's mountain glaciers.
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| 26. | Scientists have long known that " meltwater " helps narrower mountain glaciers, for example, to move faster in the summer.
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| 27. | The amount of ice in mountain glaciers pales in comparison to the ice locked over glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.
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| 28. | A sport-utility vehicle that was parked on a mountain glacier rolled over twice when the snow collapsed, injuring six people.
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| 29. | Experts have said for some time that a warming atmosphere has caused many mountain glaciers around the world to shrink.
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| 30. | "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so, " predicted Thompson, who has studied the worldwide decline of mountain glaciers.
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