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Living in Europe’s poorest country must be definitely tough, still, Moldovans are determined to prove to the world that they are not giving up this uphill struggle for survival. Though the country’s economy has spiraled downwards over the past decades, Moldova’s established wine industry is continuously marketing its finest wines to travelers at really low prices in order to salvage this small, landlocked country. Since January 2007, citizens of the U.S., Canada and EU member countries can now enter Moldova without going through the hassles of applying for a visa, while anyone with a passport can be given a 10-day free visa to attend Moldova’s Wine Festival held on the second Sunday of October. This way, Moldova can still have the chance of redeeming itself economically and of further opening itself to a world that simply cannot live without great tasting wines.

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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.