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Climate change: Melting glaciers could release tonnes of bacteria
BBC NEWS   17 November 2022   World  
Scientists are concerned thousands of tonnes of harmful bacteria could be released into rivers and lakes
<p>Vast amounts of bacteria could be released as the world's glaciers melt due to climate change, scientists have warned.<br />Potentially harmful pathogens are among the thousands of microbes that could leak into rivers and lakes.<br />Researchers at Aberystwyth ...
The world’s melting glaciers are yielding up their secrets too quickly
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
<p>FORCLE GLACIER, Switzerland — At around 8,000 feet above sea level, Switzerland’s Forcle Glacier has for thousands of years been deeply ensconced in a frigid mountain valley overlooked by some of Europe’s highest peaks.<br>Are you on Telegram? Subscribe ...
The Greater Aletsch Glacier, a journey into the melting heart of the Alps
LIGEFATE   21 March 2021   Switzerland   Swiss Alps  
Aerial view of the Greater Aletsch Glacier as seen from the Konkordiahütte September 2019 © Kevin Kok.
<p>In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier &ndash; the largest in the European Alps &ndash; established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens to stop this and the nearby Fiescher Glacier ...
Uttarakhand dam disaster: Race to save people trapped inside India tunnel
BBC NEWS   09 February 2021   India   Uttarakhand  
Up to 35 people are believed to be trapped in the tunnel
<p>Emergency teams are working round the clock to rescue up to 35 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel in northern India.<br />The tunnel was blocked after a huge flood in the state of Uttarakhand on Sunday in which 28 people have been killed, and as ...
Mont Blanc: Glacier collapse risk forces Italy Alps evacuation
BBC NEWS   07 August 2020   Italy  
The bottom section of glacier is at risk of collapse (pic: Fondazione Montagna Sicura via Reuters)
<p>Italian authorities have evacuated about 75 people, mostly tourists, from an Alpine valley as huge blocks of ice threaten to crash down from a glacier.<br />Planpincieux glacier, in the Mont Blanc massif, has weakened because of intense summer heat alternating ...
'There’s still a choice': New Zealand's melting glaciers show the human fingerprints of climate change
The Guardian   03 August 2020   New Zealand  
Photograph: Dave Allen/Lauren Vargo
<p>New research has found extreme melting of the country&rsquo;s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating.<br />Twice a year, glaciologist Lauren Vargo and her colleagues set up camp beside two small lakes close ...
Mourning a glacier
Particle Scitech   28 November 2019   Switzerland  
<p>They came dressed in black, giving sombre speeches as others lay wreaths and flowers.<br />But this funeral march wasn&rsquo;t for a person &ndash; it was for the Pizol glacier in eastern Switzerland.<br />Scientists say the alpine ice flow has lost over ...
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The World's Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame
livescience   07 November 2019   Alaska  
Taku Glacier in Alaska can be seen holding strong in this satellite image captured in August 2014. (Image: © NASA Earth Observatory)
<p>Massive and meaty, the Taku Glacier in Alaska's Juneau Icefield was a poster child for the frozen places holding their own against climate change. As the largest of 20 major glaciers in the region and one of the single thickest glaciers in the world (it ...
Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.
National Geographic   31 December 2018   World  
<p>A fifth of Earth&rsquo;s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.</p> <p>The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth&rsquo;s history. Curiously though, ...
Pilot discovers massive Alaska landslide that took huge chunk out of snow-capped mountain and unleashed millions of tons of rock into debris field stretching nearly SEVEN MILES
Daily Mail   06 July 2016   USA   Alaska  
This photograph shows the sheer magnitude of the landslide, with a dark mass spreading over the snow-covered glacier
<p>A huge chunk of mountain has given way in Alaska, sending 165million tons of rock almost seven miles in an astonishing landslide.<br>Paul Swanstrom, a pilot, first noticed it last week when he flew over the Lamplugh Glacier, in Glacier Bay National Park, ...
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