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Glaciers have long stood as silent, icy sentinels — sculpting mountains, regulating rivers, and storing Earth’s frozen memory of climate across millennia Today, they are screaming The alarm is no longer hypothetical The retreat of glaciers is already reshaping landscapes, endangering livelihoods, and threatening the future of water, food, and life for billions As revealed […]
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