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The event at Dickson Fjord, Dr Hicks added, “is the perhaps first time a climate change event has impacted the crust beneath our feet all the world over.”

The fiction writer Alan Furst, in Mission to Paris, writing of the political upper crust of France in the autumn of 1938, could have been describing America’s elite in 2024:

As glacial ice melts, the downward pressure on Earth’s thin outer crust eases, causing the ground to rebound.

Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago.

That moon is almost entirely covered by a vast ocean underneath a crust of ice.