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The Larsen C Ice Shelf is located in the Antarctic Peninsula ... and make the ice sheet follow in the ill-fated footsteps of Larsen B, whose 2002 collapse was a wakeup call to scientists and ...
Scientists keeping close watch on the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica ... A lengthening crack is threatening to cause an Antarctic ice shelf to collapse Recently, though, the main fissure has ...
Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen toured the Northwest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Tacoma on Friday, where he met with Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a farmworker and ...
A 1550 square km (963 sq mi.) iceberg, designated A81 broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. A time-lapse of the 'calving ...
Big Four Ice Caves will be closed to the public today starting at 8 a.m. so emergency responders can practice drills in the event of a cave collapse or major avalanche. Parking at the Big Four Ice ...
A Swiss glacier has collapsed, destroying most of the Alpine village of Blatten in a wave of rock and ice. Live footage on Wednesday shows 3 million cubic meters of rock and mud burying Blatten ...
How glaciers collapse - from the Alps and Andes to the ... While the debris insulated the glacier and slowed melting, its weight caused the ice to begin moving - which accelerated dramatically ...
Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier ... glacier was at risk of collapse.
The collapse destroyed several homes in the village and, according to swissinfo.ch, generated an earthquake measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale. Footage shared of the avalanche shows a deluge of snow, ...
Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing emergency services from working, but that they were cautiously optimistic ...