Patagonian meltdown
Glaciers in the mountains of Chile and Argentina are melting surprisingly fast. Data collected from space and in the field by Eric Rignot and colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, shows that the melt rate has doubled since 1975. Between 1995 and 2000, melt water from the glaciers raised sea levels by 0.1 millimetre a year, they report in Science. They say climate change is ultimately to blame.
Grim toll
Virtually every child in the world suffers from diarrhoea caused by a rotavirus before the age of 5, and the viruses kill half a million…
