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Juneau braces as Suicide Basin fills again. Here's what experts know, and don't know, about glacial outburst flooding.

University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...

Seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland

As glaciers melt, huge chunks of ice break free and splash into the sea, generating tsunami-sized waves and leaving behind a ...

100-Foot Glacier Falls in Greenland, Creates Huge Waves (Video)

"The unimaginable happened" – footage shows the collapse of a gargantuan iceberg in Sermilik Fjord in Greenland, resulting in ...
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The World’s Largest Iceberg Is Stuck Again, And This Time The Weather Conditions Are Not On Its Side

The post The World’s Largest Iceberg Is Stuck Again, And This Time The Weather Conditions Are Not On Its Side first on TwistedSifter. The world’s largest iceberg, known as A-23A, has been effectively ...
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With a release imminent, scientists say the scale of flooding in the Mendenhall Valley is hard to predict.

Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...

'I visited some naked Europeans to find out why they're so much happier than us'

Finnish with a flourish - enjoy sauna heat, ice and the northern lights in Oulu, says Jane Haynes, who decided to find out ...
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From Newark to Nuuk

When world traveler Richard Yelen of Kingston heard United Airlines was about to offer nonstop commercial flights between the ...

Perito Moreno became the world’s first superstar glacier – but now it’s set to disappear

Glaciar Perito Moreno was once considered a rarity: one of Patagonia’s only stable glaciers. But scientists have found the ...