Obama Hikes Melting Glacier, Presses World on Climate

President Barack Obama is hiking a melting Arctic glacier in Alaska Tuesday as he presses the world to act quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions that are changing the global climate for the worse.    The American leader is in the midst of a three-day visit to the country's remotest state. He is using its scenic but fragile landscape as a backdrop to call attention to a doomsday scenario caused by rising temperatures that leave entire nations and major coastal cities...

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