snow lily English

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snow lily

— noun (= glacier lily) dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers

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glacier lily

Erythronium grandiflorum

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They are themselves a cause of further warming: ice and snow reflect the sun's rays.

She says that the snow and ice have been melting.

Campaigners for carbon-emission reductions regularly highlight the melting snow and ice of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The UN climate panel estimates that Antarctica's snow mass will actually increase during this century.

Treasury Secretary John Snow has spent almost no public time on the budget, but a lot of public time on China.

Snow fell on Baghdad for the first time in living memory.

Every first-year public health student is taught how John Snow stopped a cholera epidemic in London.

During a ten-day period in September 1854, during which more than 500 Londoners died from the disease, Snow used a city map to mark the location of each household with a case of cholera.

So we will stand firm in the cold and the snow to see that our democratic choices are respected.

That was John Snow's mission on his recent trip to China, but his goal was nothing new.

Two of Snow's predecessors, John Connally and James Baker, followed a similar quest for politically desirable exchange rates.

What Snow asked of China is an odd demand: we do not normally go into stores and ask the shopkeeper to raise his prices.

Sometimes this crust is strong enough to carry a person and sometimes not, much like the hard ice crust that develops on snow in colder climates.

Snow pack in the mountains is melting earlier in the season, so that river water is less available during summer growing seasons.

The sun was high above white-crowned Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when my guide pointed down the gorge at the brown waters churning thousands of feet below.

The melting causes the sea level to rise, whereas the snow causes it to fall.

Hasnain, who is currently conducting a study of the accumulation of black carbon on snow at high altitudes in the Himalayas, is not some egotistical scientist seeking the limelight.

Between 1995 and 1999, he chaired a working group on Himalayan Glaciology within the International Commission on Snow and Ice.