Swiss Glacier Collapse Is a Lesson on Climate Disaster Management

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Blatten could only be evacuated in time thanks to surveillance. An insight into technologies that save lives.

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After the fall in Blatten, the Swiss wonder how much climate change threatens tourism and life in the Alps. A researcher believes he knows the answer.

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It all happened last week when the Swiss town of Blatten literally disappeared after an avalanche from a glacier in the nearby mountains in this area of the Alps. As a result, over its houses more than three and a half million cubic meters of an amalgam of ice, rocks and land. Not only with that, now the risk is another since experts have shown that there is danger of potential flooding. This has caused the alarm in the area to have been trigger…

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Spanish biologist Josabel Belliure has been living together for more than a quarter of a century for seasons with the same penguin colony on Deception Island in Antarctica. Her team is now investigating whether global warming is changing the personality of individuals, making them more aggressive and explorers, or perhaps more shy and passive. Two journalists from EL PAÍS recorded their work on February 11 in the noisy and pestilent penguin, clo…

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After analyzing 70 glaciers in the Maipo cajón, in the Metropolitan Region, such as El Morado, Loma Larga, Muñiri and Mesoncito, geologists of the University of Chile detected a “high susceptibility” of mass removals of glacial origin in some of these ice masses. The work was published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences and is signed by geologists Felipe Ugalde and Sergio Sepúlveda, both from the Department of Geology. The dangers a…

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Nicki Becker, Argentine climate activist and co-founder of Youth for Climate, spoke on CNN Radio this Tuesday about the advance of global warming affecting glaciers around the world and in Argentina: "We must protect them because they are very important." "In Switzerland, in the middle of the Alps, a glacier collapsed and buried a town. The photos are shocking," commented the columnist on CNN's La Mañana, the program hosted by Nacho Girón. She a…