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Most people have heard of the illegal drug "ice," also known as crystal meth or methamphetamine. A few years ago, ice was mainly confined to America, but this video investigates the growing methamphetamine problem in Australia. With 73,000 Australians now classified as users, over 2,000 methamphetamine labs discovered, and growing reports of ice related crimes, this drug is causing a national crisis.
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Ice may be one of the strangest substances in the world. Full of contradictions, it is powerful enough to shatter rock but can melt in the blink of an eye; it is transparent, yet can glow with color. It can take many shapes, from a tiny snowflake to a multimillion-ton glacier to the ice fountains on far-flung moons. In this program, Dr. Gabrielle Walker searches out some of the secrets hidden deep within the ice crystal as she investigates how something...
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Bernice Notenboom and Dr. Alun Hubbard lead an expedition across the Greenland Ice-sheet all the way north to Qaanaaq, a remote Inuit community, to explore the rate of melt of the Greenland Ice-sheet. They explore the Jakobshavn Glacier, examine moulins, and study ice core samples. This film examines the three degrees of global warming and its effects on global ocean circulation.
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On July 8, 2012, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of the massive thaw.
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This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series depicts the Army's fight against the rugged elements of the northern reaches. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration follows the United States Army Transportation Corps, under incredibly difficult conditions in the frozen wasteland of Greenland, who work with the government of Denmark on scientific projects that are designed to contribute to our mutual defense....