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.
This Landsat satellite image shows Bering Glacier in Alaska, the largest glacier in North America. Although the glacier has been retreating and thinning recently, it still surges about every 20 years or so. âCredit: NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the Landsat 7 Science Team.