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These Famous Glaciers Could Disappear By 2050, Says Unesco

UNESCO monitors 18,600 glaciers across 50 World Heritage sites. That’s 10% of the world’s glaciers. Global warming is very likely to destroy glaciers at a third of these sites by 2050.

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