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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Two of Antarctica’s most important glaciers are continuing to decline at a terrifyingly rapid pace. New satellite imagery shows the rate at which climate change is altering the ice and it has experts very worried indeed. ‘To reveal what’s really going on at Pine Island and Thwaites, we dug into imaging data from a number of different satellites,’ said geoscientist Stef Lhermitte of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. ‘We found structural damage at the “shear margins” of the glaciers’ ice shelves, where the ice transitions from fast- to slow-moving — large crevasses, rifts and open fractures that indicate that the ice shelves are slowly tearing apart.’ ‘Currently, the ice shelves are a little like a slow car in traffic — they force anything behind them to slow down. Once they’re removed, ice sitting further inland will be able to speed up, which in ...

The results of the test will now be shared with President Putin (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) Russia has put into action a plan to disconnected itself from the global internet and set up a domestic alternative instead. According to a report from the BBC , Russia’s Ministry of Communications announced it successfully tested a countrywide alternative to the internet. The government said that regular Russian browsers didn’t notice any changes to their typical web usage while the domestic web was in place. The results of the test will be presented to President Vladimir Putin, who has recently signed a law forcing all smartphones and computers sold in the country to come with Russian software pre-installed. Experts have said that Russia’s wirthdrawl from the global internet – echoing the likes of heavily-censored China – is a backwards step. ‘Sadly, the Russian direction of travel is just another step in the increasing breaking-up of the internet,’ Prof A...