Researchers' discovery of the imminent destruction of this gigantic river of ice demonstrates starkly that global warming is now making a serious impact on the northern hemisphere, threatening to melt ice caps and raise sea levels round the world.
More and more of the fish, grown in gigantic river pens in the Mekong Delta, are finding themselves on American barbecues, supplanting home-grown catfish raised in the Mississippi Delta.
The astonishing thing about this particular sort of sampling is that very simple measurements of just two things – temperature and salinity – are enough to reveal gigantic rivers, waterfalls and lakes hidden within the ocean.
The greater part of this basin is drained by three gigantic rivers: the Ob (2,268 miles [3,650 km], which with its main tributary, the Irtysh, extends for a continuous 3,362 miles [5,410 km]), the Yenisey (2,540 miles [4,090 km]), and the Lena (2,734 miles [4,400 km]).
It is 50% higher than any other mountain in the Alaska range and it controls the region's weather patterns; thousands of tonnes of snow flowing from its peak form the raw material for the glaciers that weave between peaks like gigantic frozen rivers.
Construction will begin soon on a gigantic project to divert river waters from southern China to the north, where a growing scarcity of water is limiting development around cities like Beijing and Tianjin, officials said this week.
In the same Stalin-period style are the Ukraina Hotel across the river and the gigantic building in the Moscow State University complex on the Vorobyëvy Hills.
With one of the porters working a pulley, we climbed in and rode across, one by one, while fifty feet below the river rushed through gigantic boulders.
There is a simple pleasure in looking at his endlessly varied and subtle patterns of dots and lines that add up to networks of circles or calligraphy-like marks – and then, when you stand further back, into what might be maps of mountains and rivers, pages from gigantic books, or planetary bodies.
From Pismo, we drove about 180 miles northeast through Three Rivers and into gigantic Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
The crews work seasonally, from August to November, when the water is low, to sink gigantic concrete mats that strengthen the river banks.
