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10 places you should go before it disappears
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10 places you should go before it disappears

Whether it is sea level rise, desertification, torrential monsoon, melting glaciers or ocean acidification, climate change quickly changes the landscape of our planet.

December 18, 2018
The existence of glaciers in the Himalayas
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The existence of glaciers in the Himalayas

At 4,300 meters above sea level, India's Jaundhar Glacier, it is easy to see a stretch of about 5 km, covered by a thick layer of broken rock.

December 18, 2018
The formation of Antarctic glaciers
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The formation of Antarctic glaciers

Global climate has quickly moved from an almost iceless world to giant ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago.

December 18, 2018
Glaciers withdraw, small life forms appear
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Glaciers withdraw, small life forms appear

The research team at the University of Colorado in Boulder worked at an altitude of 16,400 minutes in the Andes, Peru discovered how the barren, inert land after the col…

December 18, 2018
Is the UFO under the Baltic Sea just a rock?
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Is the UFO under the Baltic Sea just a rock?

Based on the analysis of rock samples taken from strange objects with a diameter of more than 60m and rising from the sea floor near 4m under the Baltic Sea, Swedish geo…

December 18, 2018
Puncture lake in Kirghizistan
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Puncture lake in Kirghizistan

Kirghizistan, in central Asia, fed by 7,000 meters of peaks, the Inylchek glacier contains an unexplained mystery for hundreds of years, it is unique in the world that e…

December 18, 2018
The mysterious death of the Ice
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The mysterious death of the Ice

In 1991, on the old glacier of the Alpes Mountains between the border of Austria and Italy, it was discovered that a man's body dates back to 5300 years. Because the dis…

December 18, 2018