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Alpine Flowers
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Meltwater from one of Mount Cook's glaciers flows through Hooker Valley on New Zealand's South Island. Global warming is accelerating glacial melt on New Zealand’s highest peak, which rises 12,316 feet (3,754 meters) above sea level.
Photograph by Franz Marc Frei/Corbis

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