1 Bankruptcy courts are separate units of the district courts. 2  Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. 3  People or businesses file for bankruptcy when they have more liabilities than they have the ability to pay from their assets and income. 4  Bankruptcy judges serve 14 year terms.
(Australian Antarctic Division (Photo: Paul Brown, Australian Maritime College)) Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared â Totten is melting from below.
Some glaciers flow directly into the ocean while others join to form large, thick floating ice shelves. The Pine Island Glacier, flowing at over 10,000 feet per year, is believed to be the fastest Antarctic glacier. And the largest ice shelf is the Ross Ice Shelf, roughly the size of Texas. Snow falling on the surface does not stay on the surface, but takes a deeper journey through the ice sheet as it is buried by subsequent snow and is compressed into solid ice.