Swiss glaciers melting away at record rate
Switzerland’s glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, ...
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Rescuers drill from debris-filled tunnel in bid to reach missing people
Indian rescuers began drilling from above a debris-filled tunnel Thursday in a desperate bid to reach dozens of people missing ...
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Climate change fuels sharp increase in glacier lakes
The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to climate change has jumped by 50 percent in 30 ...
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Glaciers could have sculpted Mars: study
Paris—The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centres on the water that once flowed there, but ...
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Bush fire smoke turns NZ glaciers brown
Wellington "• Smoke from Australia’s bush fires has created a haze across New Zealand thousands of kilometers away with normally ...
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Swiss glaciers shrink 10% in five years
Geneva—Switzerland’s glaciers have lost a tenth of their volume in the past five years alone"•a melting rate unmatched during observations ...
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