South Africa, and particularly Cape Town, is suffering from an unprecedented drought. The municipality has even announced that the taps could be closed during August. To solve this serious crisis, a sea rescue specialist has come up with a crazy idea: towing an iceberg from Antarctica and
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In the southwest corner of the Antarctic continent, there is a river of ice known as "the world's most dangerous glacier". On Monday, American and British scientists officially launched a venture to study the Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to determine whether it is heading towards a catastrophic collapse in a
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Les glaciers des Alpes françaises, malmenés par le réchauffement climatique, fondent trois fois plus vite depuis 2003, avec une perte moyenne totale de 25% de leur superficie en 12 ans. Les conséquences écologiques et sociétales pourraient être dramatiques. La fonte s’est brutalement accélérée. Selon le laboratoire de Glaciologie et
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Storing samples of glaciers in Antarctica: the idea may seem preposterous. Yet this is the objective of a team of researchers who will be going to Mont-Blanc in August to take samples of ice threatened by global warming. "It's not for the pleasure of keeping a few ice cubes.
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13/11/2015 The melting of two Greenland glaciers would raise sea levels by 1 meter An American study, conducted by Jérémie Mouginot (University of California at Irvine) and published Thursday, November 12 in the journal Science, shows that one of the three main glaciers in northeast Greenland,
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