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Though California’s glaciers are dwindling, he said, larger mountain glaciers elsewhere in the world still have more intact ice, and efforts to stop the use of fossil fuels could help preserve them.

The Unite union said the government was "responsible for the redundancies going ahead, as it could provide support to ensure the refinery is kept intact and operational".

"This is a 'just in time' operation, so storing those parts, making sure they're not damaged, making sure that quality control is intact would be difficult," she said.

But the Hamas militant claimed that some remained intact and that the group had learned from Israel's successes in destroying militant units that have attempted to hold ground in a fight.

Steel-moment-frame buildings rely on the connections between horizontal beams and vertical columns to stay intact during earthquake shaking, keeping the skeleton of the building together.