As Caucasian Glaciers Melt, Locals Face the Future With Stoicism
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Кармадонское, Пригородный район, North Ossetia-Alania, Russia |
Caucasian glaciers have lost a quarter of their surface area to climate change since the millennium. “We don’t have winters here anymore,” said Sergei Nureddinov, a guest house owner in the mountaintop village of Verkhniy Kani, gesturing to the glacier from his front yard. “The climate catastrophe is here.”
