* Astronomy

World's closest glacier to a city continues to shrink

The world's closest glacier to a city shrank quickly in the past year and may completely vanish in half a century, according to a Chinese scientist Saturday.
In the last 12 months, the east and west stretches of Glacier No. 1 in the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China, shrank by about 7.2 and 6.3 meters, respectively, according to a recent survey by researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Glacier No.1 is approximately 130 km from Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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