National Public Radio: Anchorage is one of the few North American cities that depend on a glacier for most of their drinking water. The Eklutna glacier also provides some of the city's electricity, through hydro power. So a team of researchers is working to answer a very important question: How long will the glacier's water supply last? To get that answer, those researchers have to shovel a lot of snow. "It gets to be the consistency of really strong Styrofoam once you get down, maybe six or eight feet," glaciologist...
URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155462729/alaska-glacier-studied-for-clues-on-water-supply?ft=1&f=1025
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