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Show Glacier Decline Seen Over Last Decade Decline of the Glaciers The world appears to be coming rapidly out of an ice age. This would seem to be the implication impli-cation of an accelerated decrease of glaciers all over the world in the past decade, noted in a report by the American Geophysical Union. The decline actually has been in progress for the last century, but in that time there have been some major advances and recessions which have, greatly complicated the problem, and it has been difficult dif-ficult to obtain a clear world picture. pic-ture. The fact that the present ice recessions re-cessions are general for the whole world disproves a theory that- one cause of great ice caps is an overheating over-heating .of one hemisphere at the expense of the other. |