In March this year the World Glacier Monitoring Service reported that glaciers are melting at their fastest rate in the past 5000 years.

CNN: Climate change: Time is running out

The Greenland glaciers are melting at a furiously dangerous rate, reports Robert Purves, an Australian environmental consultant and current board member of World Wildlife Fund (Australia).

FORBES: 500 Million People Will Be Displaced By Glaciers Melting In Greenland And The Himalayas

The power-sharing deal is expected to keep Zimbabwe's melting economy from a total collapse: Its official inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's worst, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people need urgent food aid.

CNN: EU tightens Zimbabwe sanctions