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US climate change expert died ‘falling into Greenland crevasse’ – Brinkwire
A prominent Swiss-American climate change expert has died after falling into a crevasse ‘when a snow bridge collapsed beneath him’ in Greenland.
Geologist Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), was reported missing on Saturday.
Mr Steffen, known as Koni, is believed to have fallen into a crevasse while examining a glacier near Ilulissat in southwest Greenland, his research institute said today.
Christoph Hegg, Deputy Director of…
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