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Environment
Stephen Beech

UNBELIEVABLE: Antarctic underwater landslides may trigger devastating tsunamis - Caught on Camera

IN FILE - Spectators on the roof of the Archangel St Michael Fort at the Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal watch huge XXL waves that came in with a storm today. JONATHAN MITCHELL/PACIFIC PRESS/GETTY IMAGES

Climate change could trigger huge underwater landslides in Antarctica that generate devastating tsunamis large enough to threaten a catastrophic loss of life as far away as New Zealand and South America, warns new research.

Such massive waves could also destroy major infrastructure, including subsea cables, causing economic havoc as well as “substantial” casualties thousands of miles from their origin, say scientists.

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