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<p>As the frozen "glue" that helps hold the rock faces of the Alps together begins to thaw, mountaineers face a growing risk of sudden rockfall.</p>
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Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Eastern European rivers flood after ‘extraordinary’ weather
Euronews
23 January 2023
Eastern Europe
<p>Unseasonably hot weather in Eastern Europe is taking its toll on the region's rivers.<br />Temperatures over 20C are “simply extraordinary” in mid-January, according to meteorologists. But for the last several days, countries including Ukraine, ...
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<p>Vast amounts of bacteria could be released as the world's glaciers melt due to climate change, scientists have warned.<br />Potentially harmful pathogens are among the thousands of microbes that could leak into rivers and lakes.<br />Researchers at Aberystwyth ...
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<p>In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier – the largest in the European Alps – established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens to stop this and the nearby Fiescher Glacier ...
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