Nov 2nd, 2009 - News & Observer
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WASHINGTON -- The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report.
Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Nov 3rd, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
Global warming appears to be melting the ice on Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro. The summit's glaciers are likely to be gone within a few decades That's the word from a study appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Nov 3rd, 2009 - Dispatch
WASHINGTON—The snows of Kilimanjaro might soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak -- made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway -- is rapidlymelting, researchers report.Kilimanjaro's famous icy peaks are thawing fast
Nov 2nd, 2009 - USA Today
Climate change could cause the legendary snow and ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro to disappear within the next 25 years, scientists report today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Oct 31st, 2009 - The Times of India
BEIJING: China's space scientist QianXuesen, widely known as the father of the country's space technology, died hereSaturday morning at the age of 98, Xinhua news agency reported. Qianwas born in Hangzhou...
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