Italy’s Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely
ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate ...
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Floodwaters from glacier near Alaska’s capital city break record levels and prompt evacuations
Record floodwaters released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier crested Wednesday in a river that flows through Alaska’s capital city with ...
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Ice dam at glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday ...
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Ice dam at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday ...
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A 700-pound boulder pins Alaska man face-down in a glacier creek for three hours
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska man who was pinned facedown in an icy creek by a 700-pound (318-kilogram) boulder for ...
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Search suspended for a missing man in Swiss glacier collapse that destroyed 90% of an Alpine village
GENEVA (AP) — The search for a missing 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday because of unsafe conditions after a huge ...
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Study unveils a unique microbiome in glacier meltwater streams
The Perito-Moreno glacier in Argentina. A new study sheds light on the diversity of microbial life in glacier meltwater. The ...
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As ‘Doomsday’ Glacier Melts, Can an Artificial Barrier Save It?
They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two thirds of a ...
Read moreDetailsHundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier
Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of ...
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