Europe Travel Destinations

Bulgaria is a small country in Southeastern Europe known as one of the oldest states in Europe and dubbed as the land of hitchhikers. Bordering Romania, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey, Bulgaria is considered as a good place for hitchhikers since hitchhiking was already a common means of transportation during socialist times when very few people had cars. Oftentimes, drivers who would take a hitchhiker are those who had been hitchhikers themselves in the past and, if you’re lucky, they would even share their adventures with you. However, friendly as they come, Bulgarian drivers tend to neglect road regulations and speed limits so be sure to always be careful and avoid standing in areas with a yellow triangle sign with a black circle in the middle since these are places which are considered as accident prone areas.

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Mainly of Alaska’s glaciers are retreating or thinning or mutually, a new book by the U.S. Geological Survey news.

About 5 percent of Alaska’s area is enclosed by more than 100,000 glaciers — that’s about 29,000 square miles (75,000 square kilometers), or more than the entire state of West Virginia.

While a few of Alaska’s large glaciers are advancing, 99 percent are receding, the book, “Glaciers in Alaska,” states. The book was written by USGS examine geologist Bruce Molina.

A USGS project to take pictures of the glaciers of Montana’s Glacier National Park also showed significant retreat. Based on these photos and glacier recession rates, scientists envisaged the park could lose its namesakes by 2030.

Greenland, which is covered by more ice than somewhere else in the world outside Antarctica, has also seen significant melt of its glaciers in recent decades.

The new book on Alaska’s glaciers used satellite images, aerial photos, maps and other studies to document the retreat of the glaciers, which began as early as the mid-19th century. Some glaciers have even disappeared since being mapped in the mid-20th century, the report found.

The account also said that glaciers in Alaska saw “important retreat” in the last two decades of the 20th century.