With 4° C. of warming, the peak shifts to the mid-2050s and intensifies to around 4,000 lost per year, researchers found.
ZÜRICH (AN) – An international team of scientists projects that up to 4,000 glaciers a year will vanish by the mid-2050s, a maximum rate of disappearance that would be three to five times greater than today.
The study, led by researchers at ETH Zürich and published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, shifts the focus from total ice mass loss to the sheer number of individual glaciers at risk of vanishing entirely, warning drastic cuts to emissions are needed to save tens of thousands of them.
The plan integrates mental health with chronic disease, sets ambitious targets for tobacco, hypertension, and care access.
Developing countries and big pharma have struggled to bridge gaps over mandatory benefit-sharing during pandemics.
From 2010 to 2024, annual AIDS-related deaths fell 54% and new infections fell 40%. That progress is now in doubt.
As the climate talks ran into overtime, European nations and allies battled Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil producers.
The action raised urgent questions on international law and regional stability as Venezuela turned to the U.N. in protest.
Investment brings reform and pooled funding even as deep aid cuts leave U.N. agencies struggling to meet record needs.
The review comes as agencies operate with fewer resources, increasing pressure on staff in high-risk settings.
The comments were consistent with Trump’s long-standing hostility toward the U.N. and multilateralism more broadly.
