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SOS 54 years ago warned about vanishing glaciers
2013-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: At a time when glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, an SOS buried in a bottle 54 years ago in the Canadian Arctic, and unearthed now, sent a distress signal about the world's rapidly disappearing glaciers. An American geologist Paul Walker, concerned about the melting of ice, buried a message in a bottle during his exploration of Ward Hunt Island in Nunavut, Canada, in 1959. He measured the distance - about 1.2 metres - from a glacier to where he buried the message in a bottle, requesting...
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