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‘Nothing’s left': Hurricane Ian leaves emotional toll behind
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Nothing’s left': Hurricane Ian leaves emotional toll behind

Associated Press  

FORT MYERS, Fla. — With her home gone and all her belongings trashed by Hurricane Ian, Alice Pujols wept as she picked through soggy clothes, toys and overturned furniture piled head-high outside a stranger’s house, looking to salvage something — anything — for her four children and herself. “When someone’s in a state of trauma that so many are in, …

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Ian evacuees return to mud, rubble as death toll hits 101
2 years, 3 months ago

Ian evacuees return to mud, rubble as death toll hits 101

Associated Press  

SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel Island’s streets. For the past three days, he and his wife Joyce have been making trips to their damaged mobile home in Fort Myers, cleaning up after Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast. As for the emotional turbulence, he says: “You either hold on, or you lose …

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Florida’s island dwellers dig out from Ian’s destruction
2 years, 3 months ago

Florida’s island dwellers dig out from Ian’s destruction

Associated Press  

ST. JAMES CITY, Fla. — Surrounded by Hurricane Ian’s destruction, many residents of one Florida island have stayed put for days without electricity or other resources while hoping the lone bridge to the mainland is repaired. “We feel as a community that if we leave the island — abandon it — nobody is going to take care of that problem …

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Pine Island residents recount horror, fear as Ian bore down
2 years, 3 months ago

Pine Island residents recount horror, fear as Ian bore down

Associated Press  

PINE ISLAND, Fla. — Paramedics and volunteers with a group that rescues people after natural disasters went door to door Saturday on Florida’s devastated Pine Island, offering to evacuate residents who spoke of the terror of riding out Hurricane Ian in flooded homes and howling winds. “He said that if we didn’t bring him the food, he was going to …

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Pine Island Glacier is more vulnerable than thought - and could cause sea levels to rise by 1.6ft
2 years, 3 months ago

Pine Island Glacier is more vulnerable than thought - and could cause sea levels to rise by 1.6ft

Daily Mail  

Measuring roughly the same size as England, Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier is one of the world's largest and fastest-changing glaciers. But a new study has warned that the Pine Island Ice Shelf – the ice shelf that controls the flow of ice from the Pine Island Glacier – could be more vulnerable to complete disintegration than previously thought. A new …

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Satellite images reveal ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is on the verge of collapse
3 years, 6 months ago

Satellite images reveal ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is on the verge of collapse

Firstpost  

The floating ice shelf acts like a cork in a bottle for the fast-melting glacier and prevents its much larger ice mass from flowing into the ocean. The Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf loss accelerated in 2017, causing scientists to worry that with climate change the glacier’s collapse could happen quicker than the many centuries predicted. “Pine Island and Thwaites …

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Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster
3 years, 6 months ago

Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf loss accelerated in …

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Shrinking Antarctic ice shelf Pine Island Glacier sheds giant iceberg
4 years, 10 months ago

Shrinking Antarctic ice shelf Pine Island Glacier sheds giant iceberg

ABC  

In one of the fastest-changing areas of the Antarctic ice sheet, satellites have captured the formation of a giant, 300-square-kilometre iceberg. Researchers monitoring satellite imagery of the Pine Island Glacier, in west Antarctica, first noticed two large rifts forming in the shelf in 2019. Radar imagery from May 19, 2019 showed large rifts forming in the Pine Island Glacier. "The …

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Antarctica: An iceberg nearly the size of Atlanta just broke off a glacier
4 years, 10 months ago

Antarctica: An iceberg nearly the size of Atlanta just broke off a glacier

CNN  

CNN — A story about a glacier shedding mass at the edge of the world, threatening to raise ocean levels and potentially contribute to untold environmental change. An iceberg has broken off Pine Island Glacier on the edge of Antarctica, according to satellite images taken Tuesday by the European Space Agency. And only a few days later, the glacier, also …

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