内容摘要：or found pieces. Or buying new things that have the quality to last.

or found pieces. Or buying new things that have the quality to last.

with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Venus gazes in bewilderment at the candles flickering on her mini birthday cake. The partygoers crowd around her in expectant silence, but she doesn’t blow them out.

Dogs can’t blow candles, after all. So Venus’ owner intervened, drawing a breath and extinguishing the flames to a round of applause before serving her black mixed-breed a bite of meat-flavored birthday cake.“Venus is like my daughter,” gushes Victoria Font, founder of Barto Cafe, a bakery making cakes for canines just south of Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires.About two decades ago, a birthday party for pampered pets featuring a custom cake for dogs may have struck Argentines as bizarre.

Petrona licks her lips in front of her meat-flavored cake during her third birthday celebration at a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Petrona licks her lips in front of her meat-flavored cake during her third birthday celebration at a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

makes headlines for having among the most pet owners per capita in the world. Public opinion surveys report pets in almost 80% of the city’s homes. That’s about 20% more than the average city in the United States, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, and leaps and bounds ahead of other countries in the region.

As a growing number of Argentines opt to be childless in a country) — the long-term warming limit since the late 1800s called for by the 2015 Paris climate agreement — twice as much glacier ice could be preserved than would be otherwise.

Even so, many areas will become ice-free no matter what, Truffer, the University of Alaska expert.“There’s places in Alaska where we’ve shown that it doesn’t take any more global warming,” for them to disappear, Truffer said. “The reason some ... (still) exist is simply because it takes a certain amount of time for them to melt. But the climate is already such that they’re screwed.”

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