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Bill McLoughlin

Third of glaciers in world heritage sites will be lost by 2050, says UN climate change report

Glaciologist Matthias Huss together with members of the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland

(Picture: REUTERS)

A third of all glaciers in UN World Heritage sites will be lost within three decades, a new climate change report has warned.

Such is the rate of climate change, the last glaciers in the Alps, Mount Kilimanjaro and Yosemite National Park will be unavoidably lost by 2050, the UNESCO report said.

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