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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.

With a history that stretches back to the 9th century where kings, emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices, Prague Castle is no doubt a must in every traveler’s itinerary. Prague has been one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations and being one of the most beautiful cities in the continent, any tourist will surely fall in love with its historical and cultural background. Prague Castle is, thus, the center of the city’s culture and history, embodying the political struggle of its people and the proud tradition of Czech culture manifested in its glorious historic architectures. Prague Castle is also one of the biggest castles in the world and is the biggest ancient castle according to Guinness Book of Records. A famous attraction in the Castle is the Saint Vitus’s Cathedral (the biggest and most important church in the country) which houses the tombs of many Bohemian kings and is also an excellent example of Gothic architecture. Historical monuments under the Prague Castle Administration can be visited by tourists all year round except the 24th December.