World’s glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, UN says
Reuters Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday. The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly equivalent to “an ice block the size of Germany with the thickness […]
Twenty killed in Tajikstan avalanches
Dushanbe, Tajikstan Reuters A series of avalanches has killed 10 more people in eastern Tajikistan, the Central Asian nation’s government said on Thursday, bringing the death toll over the past two days to 20 and forcing hundreds of families from their homes. A view shows the area affected by an avalanche in Gorno-Badakhshan region, Tajikistan, […]