All posts tagged: glacial

How ‘glacial’ Nicole Kidman became Hollywood’s most sexually daring star

[ad_1] In her new film Babygirl, Nicole Kidman pushes the boat out. At 57, she gets on all fours, at the request of Harris Dickinson, who plays a young intern at the tech company run by her character. She laps up cream from a saucer during one of their assignations. Sexually unfulfilled by her husband (Antonio Banderas), she watches pornography while the camera holds tight on her face in close-up, capturing every juddering spasm of pleasure. She also gets hold of one of Dickinson’s ties, discarded at a party, and practically eats it. None of this should actually come as a surprise, still less a jaw-dropping revelation. Kidman has always been one of the most physically unafraid of Hollywood’s A-list female stars. This is the same actress, after all, who was famously dubbed “pure theatrical Viagra” by this newspaper’s then-theatre critic, Charles Spencer, when she disrobed for her British stage debut, David Hare’s The Blue Room, at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. Kidman’s risk-taking in sexually adventurous roles goes well beyond just nudity, though. The …

Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru | Global development

[ad_1] Lake Palcacocha is high in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Peruvian Andes, sitting above the city of Huaraz at an altitude of about 4,500 metres. When the lake broke through the extensive moraines, or natural dams, holding it in place on 13 December 1941, it sent nearly 10m cubic metres of water and debris into the narrow valley towards the city, 1,500 metres below. The result was one of the most devastating glacial lake outburst floods – or “GLOFs” – ever recorded. The force of the water altered the area’s geography for ever, and killed at least 1,800 people, and possibly as many as 5,000. Like all such lakes, Palcacocha was formed as a glacier receded, the water filling up the hollowed-out land around it. This process – and the floods that can result – is natural but now, scientists say, the climate crisis is increasing the risk it poses. Peruvians stand on the site of a hotel in Huaraz, which was destroyed in December 1941 when flood waters from Lake Palcacocha, carrying …