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Up to half of the world's glaciers could disappear even if ambitious climate targets are hit, new study finds
Half of the world’s glaciers could be lost by the end of the century, even if the world’s ambitious global climate targets are met, sceintists reported Thursday.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.