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No chance of saving global glaciers as melt rate goes 'off the charts'

The Nansenbreen glacier in Borebukta Bay. AFP - JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

The world's glaciers melted at a dramatic rate last year and saving them is effectively a lost cause, the United Nations reported on Friday, as climate change indicators once again hit record highs.

The last eight years have been the warmest ever recorded, while concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide hit new highs in the global atmosphere, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation said.

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