In February of this year, at least four people were murdered and 49 others were reported missing after a mine collapsed in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China. The incident’s cause was not promptly determined.

Over 900 rescue personnel were dispatched to the site, and President Xi Jinping ordered authorities to make “every possible effort” to locate survivors.

The collapse buried more than fifty employees and left a debris pile approximately 500 meters (1,640 feet) wide and an estimated 80 meters tall.

The ice walls of a hanging glacier in a national park in Chile’s Patagonia region were compromised by higher temperatures and precipitation in September of last year.

Inner Mongolian mines are among the country’s leading coal producers. According to a BBC report, Chinese mines have attempted to increase output over the past year in an effort to increase supplies and decrease prices.

In a video that went viral, a 200-meter (656-foot) glacier atop a mountain in Queulat National Park, located more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) south of Chile’s capital, rumbled and split off.

Raul Cordero, a climate scientist at the University of Santiago, was quoted by Reuters as saying that detachments between ice masses are normal, but their frequency is concerning.

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“Because this type of event is triggered by heat waves or intense precipitation,” Cordero explained. “Both of these phenomena are occurring more frequently across the globe, not just in Chile.”

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