内容摘要：A pet cat receives treatment at the Kashmir veterinary hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

A pet cat receives treatment at the Kashmir veterinary hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

For example, glaciers in the Alps have lost 50% of their area since 1950, and the rate at which ice is being lost has been accelerating, with “projections ... that all the glaciers in the Alps could be gone in this century,” Thompson said.Switzerland, which has the most glaciers of any country in Europe,

, the second-biggest decline in a single year after a 6% drop in 2022.A 2023 study found thatmore than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades, and 175 glaciers disappeared due to

between 2016 and 2020, mostly due to the increase in the average global temperature.A massive debris avalanche, with the village of Kippel in the foreground, is seen on Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after the collapse of the Birch Glacier causing the demolishing of the village of Blatten in Switzerland. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

A massive debris avalanche, with the village of Kippel in the foreground, is seen on Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after the collapse of the Birch Glacier causing the demolishing of the village of Blatten in Switzerland. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

A study published Thursday in Science said that even if global temperatures stabilized at their current level, 40% of the world’s glaciers still would be lost. But if warming were limited toThey say it calls for a 60-day pause in fighting, guarantees of serious negotiations leading to a long-term truce and assurances that Israel will not resume hostilities after the release of hostages,

. Israeli forces would pull back to the positions they held during the ceasefire Israel ended that month.Hamas would release 10 living hostages and a number of bodies during the 60-day pause in exchange for more than 1,100 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, including 100 serving long sentences after being convicted of deadly attacks.

Each day, hundreds of trucks carrying food and humanitarian aid would be allowed to enter Gaza, where experts say a nearly three-month Israeli blockade —— has pushed the population