Climate: A Gigaton of Ice
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What is a gigaton and why are the ocean levels rising?
NASA’s GRACE mission studies the Earth’s gravity and mass. It also tracks how much ice has melted from the polar ice caps. Learn how much ice has melted since the start of the 20th century and what that means to coastal habitats.
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Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by Sparklight, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Climate: A Gigaton of Ice
Clip: Special | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
NASA’s GRACE mission studies the Earth’s gravity and mass. It also tracks how much ice has melted from the polar ice caps. Learn how much ice has melted since the start of the 20th century and what that means to coastal habitats.
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Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by Sparklight, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.