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Total solar eclipse plunges Antartica into total darkness

Felipe Trueba, Imagen Chile/AFP
Posted at Dec 05 12:07 PM

Handout picture released by Imagen Chile showing a total solar eclipse from Union Glacier in Antarctica, on Saturday. Read more »

First bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 14 07:29 PM

Rescuers on Sunday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley devastated by a flash flood a week ago, where 161 people remain missing. Read more »

18 dead, 200 missing after Indian glacier disaster

Jalees Andrabi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 08 05:02 PM

Eighteen people were confirmed dead on Monday and at least 200 others were missing after a devastating flash flood in India thought to have been caused by a chunk of glacier breaking off. Read more »

Himalayan glacier breaks in India, up to 150 feared dead in floods

Devjyot Ghoshal and Saurabh Sharma, Reuters
Updated as of Feb 07 09:04 PM

As many as 150 people were feared dead in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a hydroelectric dam on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream. Read more »

Antarctica's glacier-damming ice shelves at risk of crumbling

Marlowe Hood,Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 27 05:45 AM

PARIS - More than half the ice shelves ringing Antarctica that prevent huge glaciers from sliding into the ocean and lifting sea levels are at risk of crumbling due to climate change, researchers said Wednesday.   Read more »

Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 04 06:08 AM

The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centers on the water that once flowed there, but new research published Monday suggests that many of the Red Planet's valleys were gouged by icy glaciers, not rivers. Read more »

Hell and ice water: Glacier melt threatens Pakistan's future

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 12:30 PM

SHISPER GLACIER, Pakistan - The villagers of Hassanabad live in constant fear.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 23, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 23 11:35 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Death of a glacier

Denis Balibouse, Reuters
Posted at Sep 23 08:32 AM

People take part in a mourning ceremony as awareness to climate change, for the disappearing Pizol glacier, in Mels, Switzerland. Read more »

Climate activists hold event to mark vanishing Swiss glacier

Reuters
Posted at Sep 22 09:35 PM

Hundreds of climate activists paid their respects to a Swiss glacier on Sunday that is due to disappear over the next decade, the victim of a warming environment. Read more »

Melting glaciers, ice sheets, raising Earth's seas

Patrick Galey and Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 29 11:22 PM

As the planet's polar ice sheets destabilize amid rising temperatures, a landmark UN assessment of Earth's retreating frozen spaces is also set to spell out how melting mountain glaciers will impact humanity in the decades to come. Read more »

Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change

Jeremie Richard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 19 07:43 AM

REYKJAVIK - Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate.    Read more »

A thriving Filipino community makes Juneau home away from home

Kage Gozun
Updated as of Aug 12 09:38 AM

"Did Juneau" that in the early 1900s, Filipinos made their way to and established roots in America's 49th state? But the second largest US city bears many more come ons than cultural familiarity—from majestic trails and glaciers to awe-inspiring wildlife.  Read more »