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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.

Finland’s capital city, founded on June 12, 1550, is a multi-faceted town that is unique in many ways and has much to offer any visitor.

Helsinki is set apart from other big historical cities by two factors: the great physical presence of nature and the very clear grid pattern used to design the city’s streets. Most big cities have a limited number of parks. In Helsinki, parks can be found behind almost every corner. Even in the most densely-built districts of the city center, dense parks have been introduced to liven up the landscape. Both the overwhelming presence of nature and the clear street pattern – the network of straight, symmetrical wide streets, which make finding any address a simple task – are the creation of the city’s two main designers, Johan Albrecht Ehrenstr�m and Carl Ludvig Engel.

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In Europe, food is a must try! Most of the gourmet food we have today is from them. Because of an article I read, Snowland’s Igloo restaurant has become one of my dream destinations during my lifetime. It is a freezing restaurant at Helsinki, Finland, where the tables are made of ice, they serve exotic food, and they also have an Arctic Disco. Another place that I’m curious of is the City of Venice. They say that it is a grand city of waterways, small islands, and grandeur architecture. It is car-free city, making the waterbuses and passing by the Grand Canal a would-be amazing experience.