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The Indian government's decision to allow a civilian expedition to the Siachen glacier, an expedition NDTV will be part of, hasn't gone down well with Pakistan. Pakistan says this is a disputed territory and India has no business allowing such expeditions. There is history behind this antipathy t...
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Glacier-monitoring station inaugurated in Yunnan The inauguration for a Chinese Academy of Science observation station for glacier and environment was held at a symposium on glaciology held in late May at Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon and Snow-capped Mountain) in the suburban Lijiang County of...
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A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting...
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An ancient boulder which has stood on Newbiggin beach for hundreds of years and once featured on a cartoon postcard for the village has been saved from rising sand levels. The origins of the Hunkleton Stone, which lay on the beach close to the former Middle Shelter, is a mystery to many. Some believe it...
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13,350 years ago the glacial Lake Iroquois broke out from behind the Adirondack Mountains and the northern ice sheet.
It was three times the size of modern Lake Ontario.
As the natural ice dam collapsed, floodwaters rushed down the Hudson River Valley; past modern Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Sta...
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The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren't around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps...
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Huge Crack Discovered in Antarctic Glacier A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg breakup in progress. NASA's Operation Ice Bridge, the largest airborne su...
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