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Alpine glaciers risk 90-percent melt by 2100
Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could see more than 90 percent of glaciers in the Alps disappear by the end of the century, scientists said Tuesday in new research. There are more than 4,000 glaciers — vast, ancient reserves of ice…